I'm sitting on a bench overlooking the bay, outside our local hospital. No, nothing dramatic... just taking in a bit of sun and fresh air while Mrs. Denmarkguy is inside at the minor emergency clinic having somebody take a look at an ear infection.
Whereas some people get very frustrated at the process of having to wait for something - anything - I tend to find it fairly relaxing and often a good time for contemplation. Perhaps that's merely a reflection of the fact that one of the things I've always been really good at is "contemplation!"
So I sit here and watch the comings and goings; my little bench is not far from the Emergency Center where the ambulances arrive, and I also watch the comings and goings of hospital workers and delivery people and parcel services and what have you.
I look at the world and the people in it and sometimes I contemplate the reality of having the "luxury" of doing just one thing.
I watched somebody push a large laundry cart past my spot, going from the upper parking lot to the lower parking lot, and wondered what life would it be like if all you had to do was pick up laundry, get it cleaned and redeliver it in clean condition to some predestined place? That's all you do day after day. How would that life feel?
Don't get me wrong, I chose my hodgepodge multiple-channel life voluntarily, and I'm typically fairly content with it. However, there are a moments when I wonder what things would be like if I had instead chosen a single path and just been satisfied with showing up somewhere, doing what I was told for 40 or 50 hours a week, collecting a check and going home again.
Of course, I would likely be in the same boat as the many who are gradually coming to the realization that "one job is not enough" to survive, in 2023. At least not if you're a typical "hourly worker."
Maybe it's just a natural part of the human condition that we find ourselves periodically wondering about what it would be like to have a life that is not the same as our own current life.
I also find myself pondering such possibilities in the context of the fact that the life I have actually managed to create over the past 40 years is enormously different from anything I visualized when I was a teenager and subsequently a college student.
My work life started "badly," in the sense that I was generally seen to be "overqualified" for what I wanted to do, and I had little interest (mostly for "stress" reasons) in the jobs open to me, based on what others perceived my abilities to be.
Thinking back on that reminds me of the time a friend — who also happened to be working as a "work purpose coach" — pointed out to me that I seemed to be following a pattern of deliberately UNDERemploying myself.
Maybe it was her way of gently pointing out that I seemed unmotivated and lazy! I took no offense...
And with that thought, I've been "beeped" to come to the door and pick up my other half!
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