Comment by orionspelt
8 hours ago
Those things you describe are jobs
Work is a term of physics; breathing is work. Eating is work.
Jobs exist because people are too lazy to do work for themselves.
What I want is no job and to work on my house, work in my food prep, work on interesting projects. Work on making the last mile stuff I need.
Work is great. Jobs are dumb.
You want to work on your house and prep your food? I am the complete opposite. I would rather work on building a website, and eat in a canteen, than work on my house or my food.
Reread...
> ...work on interesting projects.
Been building websites for 20 years, and writing code, studying math, building electronics since the 80s. Along with building homes from foundation up, rebuilding cars... Hedonic treadmill; individually, none of those things are enough anymore.
For me having to put so much time into riding a tightly focused job escalator is hell.
Sometimes jobs are great streams of interesting work to do that also switch off at five.