Writers and Entrepreneurs Do
Not Know What Having It Bad Really
Means
Whether you are an entrepreneur, writer, or
retiree working in a
retirement job, you may think that you are having
a bad day. Indeed, all of us may be struggling
with our projects at times but it is important to put things in
proper perspective so you have even more
reasons to never work in a real
job. Let me make my point.
In January I
received the following e-mail from a gentleman in
Cuba:
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----- Original Message ----- From:
anabelherre
To: vip-books [at] telus.netSent:
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 11:37 PM
Subject: To Mr.
Ernie Zelinski
Dear Mr. Ernie
Zelinski
Allow me to introduce myself, I am
Rolando, I just had the opportunity to read
your book The Lazy Person's
Guide to Success (in
spanish) and believe me I am very glad and
thankful you for this wonderful book,
I found reflected myself in your book, I
am a Cuban, and live here in Cuba, and
after many years working for the Gov.
entity, having no time even to share with
my little daughter, I understood that I can
work as a freelance. even here in my
country, where, unfortunatelly, everything
you do can be unlegal, and the private
iniciative is not stimulated by the
Gov.
I am 49 years old, but I am not afraid
to start again, and your book encourage me
a lot, I want to thank you for your life
style approach, that really help me in
taken some decision, next summer I will
travel to Russia, I have a son there, and I
will try to get your book The Joy of Not
Working: A Book for the Retired,
Unemployed, and
Overworked,
unfortunatelly I can not get it from
here, and we have no free access to
internet,
Thank you again for your helpful advises
in your book,
Best wishes in this 2010 year, the best
for you and your family,
Rolando
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I sent an e-mail back to Rolando
indicating that I likely had another book in Spanish that I
could send to him given that I have had at least ten books
published in Spanish.
He immediately replied that he was surprised
that I would even respond to him. After I realized that I did
not have a spare Spanish edition of either How to Retire
Happy, Wild, and Free or
The Joy of Not
Working, I found a spare copy of the
Spanish edition of my book Career Success Without a Real
Job:
One of the
other reasons I took so long to send it to him was that I
wasn't sure it would reach him given what I had heard about the
Cuban mail system. But eventually I spent the $14.00 for
airmail and sent the book to him.
Here is the
subsequent e-mail (totally unedited as the one above) that I
recently received from Rolando:
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From: anabelherre To: Ernie
Zelinski
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Reply from Ernie J. Zelinski
Dear Mr. Zelinski
I just reveived the autographed copy of
your wonderful book Career Success Without
a Real Job in
Spanish, THANK YOU!!! very much, you are
very kind, and I always will be grateful
and remember this,
As I wrote you, your book
The Lazy Person's Guide to
Success help me very
much, after many years working for the
goverment, as the Director of the Nautical
Charting Agency of Cuba, & one day they
found that I do not deserve anymore be in
this position, because I was working as
Graphic Designer, on the "left hand" this
is how we call here in Cuba, the unformal
work, and 6 years ago was unlegal for the
engineer cartographer and Director, to have
2 jobs, (since the last year was approved
the new law, that accept that the
universitary specialist can have 2 jobs, of
course under many conditions)And for that
reason I was in jail for 3 years (for the
unlegal develop of private enterprise),
I had 3 years thinking about my future,
and I really was more worry about my status
as specialist than for the money, then, I
start freelance working as Graphic
Designer, the same I was doing unlegally,
and your book really encourages me while I
was in jail, when I was worry about my
future, your book gave me strength,
You are living in the free world, but
even here, Mr. Zelinski, in the country
where the private initiative is chased and
dangerously action, your book is very
helpful, because gave the psicological
approach to release your self and live your
life with out the formal work, and the most
important: happy and with more time for you
and your family & friends.
I planning fly to Russia next summer (I
have a son there) , and then attend the
invitation to work in Canada, as Nautical
Cartographer, In any case I will be always
in contact with you and your wonderful
books, Thank you again for your kind
desicion of sending me an autograpohed
book,
If you agree I want to send later my
comments after reading your book,
You very grateful Cuban reader,
Rolando
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So my point is: We may think
we have it tough at times. Big Deal!
Think you are having
a bad
day?/
Compared to what? Rolando spent three years in jail for
trying to be an entrepreneur
.
And here is the subsequent e-mail (totally unedited as
the two above) that I last received from Roland:
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Dear Mr.
Zelinski,
I finished to read your book
Career
Success Without a Real
Job, that you kindly and
unforgettably sent to me this year,
together with the group of
my friends that shares the same idea of
optimize our time toward to enjoy life
more creative, that allows us to dispose of
more time to share with our favorite
persons and activities, and at the same
time create sufficient financial
resources to sustain this life style.
This is not an “utopia”, even for persons
that resides in countries
with the very limited life
and job options, like unfortunatelly is
the case of my country.
I leave back, and I hope
forever, the days when I worked 10 hours
and more for the goverment
enterprise, with unproductive night
& weekend work meetings, that consume
the few hours I could be with my little
daugther. Since I work for my self (I
started 7 years ago) as freelance graphic
designer, I understood that this is the
real life style that entirely satisfy me,
and allows me to arrange create new
services to my clients, promote in my own
way my design offers y have important time
spaces to share with my favorite &
important to me
persons.
In a month I will travel to
Russia to live temporarily there (I have
a son in that country) and I will take
your books with me (
The Lazy Persons Guide to Success and
Career
Success Without a Real
Job
) As my “Bibles”, I am not
sure what exactly expect to me in the
near future, but now I know what
exactly I expect of life, and I will try
to employ my self, with all my current
skills and the skills that I still can
acquire, to live by my self,
with me as a main boss and enjoy my life
as well I can, next october will be my
birthday (50 years old) and believe
me I am feeling some fear to
re-start my life, even in other
latitudes, by I trust in me and trust in
the life that already I know as a
freelance and of course I
know what makes me
happy.
Wish me Good
Luck.
I will try be in touch with
you and I respectfully propose you be
your graphic designer & illustrator
for your next book, this I will do completaly
free, it will be a pleasure and honor to
me, because I feel that I am in debt with
you for all the useful and valuable
information that your books gave to
me.
Thank you again
and Good Luck for you too, Mr.
Freedom!
With my best
regards,
Rolando Feitó
Sarduy
Your Cuban
friend.
P/S: Sorry for
my english, I attached the text I
wrote in
spanish
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