2y ago

Now if only I could find a job doing this

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In 1958, a self-described 42-year-old kid named Robert Paul Smith penned a little book titled How to Do Nothing with Nobody All Alone by Yourself (public library), which his wife Elinor, an accomplished author herself, illustrated — a delightful field guide to hacking household objects and making mischievous contraptions from nature’s gifts, long before the rise of hacker culture and the modern Maker Movement.
- “Nothing, nobody, all alone”
  So he and his wife did it together. Then publicized it for the world. So op can share it on social medias /s
- Wait. Are you telling me that he actually did SOMETHING with SOMEONE? Such hypocrisy!
I had a job that felt like this sometimes, as a contractor for a federal gov’t agency, and I hated it. Be careful what you wish for…
- I worked in a system development area years ago. It was an annual income tax system. The designers designed for about half a year; the build people made the code over an overlapping half a year; test tested the code over about half a year.
  Whatever you did, you worked half a year, and were idle half a year
  This was after the internet, but before we had internet to the desk. It was before smart phones, before cell phones
  It was terrible.
oh yes my favorite hobby
I have this. It’s called (mental) disability pay. It’s not as glamorous as it sounds. But my dog loves my free time.
I read that book when I was a kid.

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