This is kind of an interesting story:
A wealthy divorcee has sold her luxury home to fund a new life on the high seas. Mimi Bland, 59, is one of hundreds of high-fliers buying cabins on maritime firm Storylines’ luxury residential cruise ship, MV Narrative. The liner will go around the world once every three years continuously with stops in ports across the globe.
So far, so good, although the ship’s name did cause a momentary twitch of the nose — “narrative” is not what I’d call a romantic name — but the question which arose as I was reading is: that’s all well and good, but eventually she’s going to need some income to pay for all that luxury, i.e. a job. Which is when my nose nearly twitched right off my face.
She plans to work as a mindfulness mentor while on board.
Great Kafka’s throbbing phallus: WTF is a “mindfulness mentor”?
I thought I had seen some bullshit jobs (and titles) in my time — “diversity consultant”, “human resources manager” and “psychologist” come to mind — but this one takes the Golden Turd Award.
For someone hammering hard on the door of 60, our prospective mindfulness mentor is quite a babe; but aside from being mindful of her boobs, I can’t actually think what she’d bring to any sane man’s party.
Unless “mindfulness mentor” is just another modern term for “sex worker”, but I’m completely out of touch in that area as well. I report, you decide.
> WTF is a “mindfulness mentor”?
I realize this is a rhetorical question, but the parts of my brain that reign in the Aspergers side aren’t fully functional yet so you get an answer.
There’s this thing called “mindfulness meditation” which is sitting quietly and focusing on one thing. Initially it’s just your breathing, but as one gets better at it other things–like the taste of chocolate or scotch, or the sensation of air on your face as you walk or whatever.
It’s training to be “fully present”, which means that you’re able to shut out the inner narrative, unbidden thoughts blah blah blah.
The Marine Corps experimented with it (meditation) for a while in Afghanistan, and the preliminary results were that doing this sort of meditation for 15 or 30 minutes a day resulted in a lot of marines who performed better in combat. There also seemed to be less PTSD from marines who practiced it.
It does tend to reduce markers of stress and anxiety in people who practice it regularly.
It sounds like she’s going to either be a coach/guide for meditation practice, or what I think more likely is that, like a lot of progressive idiots, going to try to skip the meditation and just try to be mindful without all that boring work.
sounds like a confidence racket to me. HR is an utterly dreadful department. They should restrict their jobs to helping people fill out tax forms which I’m sure they are dreadful at and navigating the benefits package at the company. Other htan that, I don’t see them having much purpose other than to antagonize and demoralize the employees.
JQ
This is why if you’re wealthy you should NEVER marry and just sport-fuck your way through life.
There’s no way this harpy earned any money on her own. I guess all men pay for sex.
Deep truth here my friend, deep truth.
I say this as a mostly devout Christian too. But I’ve seen this go sideways too many times. To the detriment of the male.