Contingency = Confidence

Also possibly momentum, as in when Mike Patton at the Brixton Academy attempted to fart into his microphone, but it was silent, he just ploughed on with sniffing the microphone head and you'd swear he knew what he was doing.

But anyway, I started listening to some of the 'Career-Tools' podcasts on manager-tools, and I thought there is a real dividing line between employees and curiously it ties in with 'those who walk the walk' except for me it was the employees willing to 'walk' as in say 'you can take this job and shove it' or 'damn your eyes!' in obviously a much more diplomatic way that curiously had the brightest prospects.

ostensibly I set out with this post with the intention of not bringing up the NBA finals for once. And so will avoid mentioning the LA Lakers league best employment of the bench.

Instead, I think confidence comes from having 'an ace up the sleeve' in the basic corporate form it is in having savings. The more savings you have, the longer you can take to find another job whilst maintaining the same lifestyle. This goes beyond quelling the fear of being fired to actually having the option of walking on your own volition.

Germaine Greer made a point of 'security' that companies and social scripts often promote as your basis of confidence. Has nobody ever noticed that having a mortgage on your brow is the very opposite of security, never moreso than the threat of losing your house does getting fired suddenly threaten to wipe out everything you've striven to achieve.

Also you can look at the notion of security promoted in groupist cultures, most notably Japan. My friend Yoshi was amazed that in Australian high-school life, in most cases if you decide your current circle of friends are a pack of douchebags you can just switch circles. It's only as hard as changing a habit. Whereas groupism as practiced in japan your 'nakama' in highschool is pretty much the only 'close' friends you'll have for life. The security of the group infact restricts you to just maintaining the status quo.

I know I practice a model of this contingency planning of savings/switching friends that is probably a bit extreme for most people, being used to hard living as I am. But I recommend at least in acknowledging that insecurity paradoxically gives one the freedom to move and master their own destiny. I recommend it. Security then is the opposite of confidence.