Work
It's work cause they gotta pay you to do it. Ha ha. Yeah funny saying, but the reality is so much more. I used to think all jobs were hell. But then I realized it depends. I mean they are cruiser jobs where you just do some monitoring of say a building and it's scheduled events. Basically they just need someone there to make sure things don't get F'd up.
I've worked a number of cruiser jobs, but I've also worked some from hell and plenty in-between. I dropped out of university 'cause the only things I liked: sports and girls, didn't lead to a degree. I just couldn't find my field of interest. While I was at university I worked as a radio DJ. So I went to a broadcast school and started working in commercial radio. It was an interesting job, much more up my street. But it still wasn't enough to satisfy me. I was searching for a career that had a wider range of creativity.
I've always felt like a misfit. Most things just didn't excite me the way it got others going. I was looking for something really different. Unfortunately when I found it I couldn't support myself at it. So I had to work a bunch of part & full-time jobs to pay the bills while I pursued my dream job in my spare time. I've: delivered mail, cooked fried chicken, answered phones, set up tables and chairs, made collection calls, directed traffic, cleaned toilets, wrote parking tickets, drove a local taxi service, toiled as an assembly mechanic, operated a video camera for a cable station, changed holes on a golf course, pitched as a salesman, used a brush as a number painter, the list goes on and on. Finally I went back to college and after 5 years got a couple of technical arts degrees. Then back into the workforce full-time, but with training and marketable skills.
Now I'm retired. I don't know how I got through those work years. But I did. I hated that feeling of—damn I gotta get a job or I'm going to be out on the street with no place to stay. Thanks to a couple of slender pensions I pursue my interests without that nagging day job zapping my energy. But I am as busy as I was before. I don't like to sit around and take it easy. Boring. So beside my creative bents, I volunteer for things I believe in. Still, I never achieved many of my goals. But I'm not giving up. I'm still punching, still working.