The other day I was driving down Point Brown Road in Ocean Shores, Washington. Ocean Shores is a small town with almost no economic base. If you live there, you are likely a retiree or work in one of the restaurants or hotels that serve the tourists. The internet in Ocean Shores is anemic, but it does exist. Yet, when I drove by the McDonalds in the center of town, the sign said, “Now hiring; apply online.”

There is an assumption that everyone, now, in the United States has access to the internet.

With the internet, we can reach millions of people in an instant. We can research anything in milliseconds. We can find opportunities. We live in a world of options.

Options of growth, options to waste our time, options to be informed, options to be misinformed. We can get a degree. We can write a book. We can work at McDonalds.

This is good and this also can be overwhelming.  We can now build a wide range of things to do simply through the electronic devices in our homes.

Further, we have all the expectations placed on us by co-workers, bosses, clients, family, friends, the government, and ourselves. They want us to do things. We want us to do things. All those things are more options.

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