The Price for Freedom

At what cost would you be willing to pay to be free? Free from a job commitment that treats you unfairly, free to create your own life the way you want it, and free to explore your creative side? Today, my price tag for that freedom is $30,000.00. That is what my corporate slave master paid me in exchange for forty hours of my time each week. What I realized over the last month is my freedom and time is worth much more.

Two days ago I have reasons to believe that my employer has hired a Texas law firm, Strasburger L.L.C. to investigate me. My claims are based on searches done in Google. Why would a law firm from Texas specializing in employee termination put in Google “eric p. martin chicago?” Why would my employer a week prior put in Google “eric p. martin chicago” unless they wanted to gather information about me to use against me.

The only person who could have initiated that would have been my manager. The same manager that I had a talk with about my career just two week prior to these searches who assured me he wasn’t the enemy during our heated discussion. These action just validates my beliefs and attitude towards Corporate America being untrustworthy and unworthy of  any loyalty.

Today I begin my journey on the road to freedom. I will take the resources and time that I have to explore life and all its possibilities than exchange it for injustice from an establishment that only looks at me as a “human expenditure.”