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I can see the benefit of 'doing what you love' career-wise but what if what you love, a million times more than anything else, is not having to labor for money
I don't have an issue with labor. I love labor. I believe in labor. I believe every single person should labor. but when you connect labor to money and money to survival, it changes what counts as labor. it changes how one must labor. and above all it changes how labor feels.
we have made labor an ugly and wingless thing.
if labor was completely separate from survival, if it wasn't about earning but instead about *contributing*, what kind of labor would you most want to contribute? (your contribution may or may not line up with any existing occupation or idea of 'legitimate' labor)
like I'd love to contribute
- introducing women to different cheeses
- personal shopping or being a shopping wingwoman for women who feel scared/self-conscious shopping for clothes
- scooping ice cream
- pacing around with a newborn baby as it cries and cries and cries
- introducing women to different cheeses
- personal shopping or being a shopping wingwoman for women who feel scared/self-conscious shopping for clothes
- scooping ice cream
- pacing around with a newborn baby as it cries and cries and cries
totally. like, I loved scooping ice cream. I loved doing soft serve, making waffle cones, balling up ice cream, giving samples, cleaning my scoop in the dipper well, describing flavors, handing a woman her cone and hearing her moan over how good it is. https://twitter.com/berneets/status/1045324947185389568
this exactly. "I would probably do what I do now [...] except I would do it all with less fear in my heart" https://twitter.com/ethorkel/status/1045337276702633985
what kills me about the responses to my question (if labor was completely separate from survival, if it wasn't about earning but instead about *contributing*, what kind of labor would you most want to contribute?) is how wholesome they are. https://twitter.com/RustBeltRebel/status/1046459597911994368
there's nothing that feels more luxurious and pleasurable to me than when I've have enough time, energy and money to labor pro bono - to labor at something I believe in, at my own pace, in the way I believe is best and not just the most profitable, for the people who need it most
another thing I've noticed about responses to my question (if labor was about *contributing*, what kind of labor would you most want to contribute?) is how many people think of holistic forms of labor that leverage both their mind and body, instead of one or the other
