Situation normal

All fucked up.

I was discussing with my father just now the merits of working in organized crime, and I began to lament my life decisions to not get involved with such criminal activities. For instance organized crime works much the same way any job does. You start at the bottom, and work your way up. Much like the real world you earn more money the longer you stay with your company, and you earn promotions as such over time. The main differences are you will likely make a lot more money in your chosen profession however you will likely have to do some horrible things, and should you be unfit for your position, job termination is likely to be far more drastic.

However I am drawn to the upper/middle management area in a life of crime. This, much like in the real world seems to be a comfortable place to coast along. You aren't responsible for making any big decisions, but you still enjoy a place of management over a majority of your team. In the crime world this means you're high enough on the food chain to avoid regular chances of police involvement in your life, but you're still low enough to rat out somebody higher. The feds always want somebody higher. This is where an outside perspective helps. You must be responsible with your ill got earnings. This means multiple numbered accounts throughout the globe, and other ways to hide your cash from everyone. Let's face it. Eventually the proverbial shit is going to hit the fan, and you're going to have to flee. If you have been responsible with your money you can retire to an island somewhere, and live out the rest of your life in style. If you have been like most criminals, and spending your money like it grows on trees because in your world it might as well. Well fleeing is gonna suck for you. You'll probably have nothing, and most likely a price on your head. This will likely result in your imprisonment and/or death.

I think I would've been well suited for criminal activity though. I'm smart, determined when it suits me, I value money a lot higher than most things, and I have a pretty blurry sense of right and wrong. Perhaps now I've developed to many morals and values to make a career change, but had I started much earlier I might've done all right. I'd either be filthy rich, or in jail right now. As long as I could get enough people under me I think I'd be rich.

That's what I love about this industry. It's like a miniature version of the US Government. Management makes obscene amounts of money getting stupid people to do stupid things for them. They do this through fear, and money. More fear than money I'm afraid. And best of all there are no restrictions because you're operating outside the law... Wait a second. These days you could almost say the US Government is operating much like the KGB. I dare anyone to deny that... I really do. I mean I think that statement is accurate, but I'm not nearly well read enough (not at all) on that subject to back my statement up. I think the US Government > Organized Crime > KGB thought pattern flowed pretty seamlessly.

I'm tired of typing now.