This document discusses identity and purpose in life. It notes that a minimum wage temp job offers only stagnant 2% annual wage growth and being stuck in a middle class community. Instead, one should take charge of their own destiny no matter how impossible it seems. More to life exists beyond just football, alcohol, and action. While Europeans see it as crazy, Americans see it as being creative. A teacher once tried to punish a student for being disrespectful but the student pointed out they should always be respectful. The document advises not to define oneself by one's job or employment, which can be fickle. It shows a historical graph of the growing U.S. services industry workforce compared to agriculture.