I am currently working on my taxes. Yes, I do know that time is growing short for this. It is the most dreaded time of the year because I now see how little I made the past year. It doesn't get any easier knowing that Uncle Sam needs his money. In fact it's too easy to get confused by all the forms and the pressure to do it all on-line. I am not comfortable with this at all. I am very much a Luddite when it comes to exposing my personal information. Yet I know I've had to in order to find work.
I am struggling with "Big Brother" wanting to know everything about me. I don't like having my privacy being violated. "Big Brother" doesn't need to know my physical state, my mental state or medical status. They just don't. Yet this is exactly what "Big Brother" wants. I feel like I'm losing control of my own well being....and that's scary. Maybe this is why this is the most dreaded time of the year for me. I do hate having to relinquish control to a third party who will do God knows what with my personal information. Yet I know that some of my personal information is already out there ripe for the picking and there is not one thing I can do about it.
I do long for the days when you had a good paying job, and you didn't have to worry about someone stealing your identity. It is way too easy to do nowadays....no matter what anyone says. You can only do so much to protect it. Paper is still the best way, if you're really careful, to secure your personal information. Too many eyes see it electronically despite the assurances of encryption.
I hope for a better tomorrow, even as I struggle to pay my taxes and give Uncle Sam his due.
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