"The experience of no need to find the necessary emolument."

[Plenum]

thanks for sharing your story manniz.

That was a great read. It definitely puts a lot of things in perspective, and shows how individuals live in vastly different relationships to the one global economic system that we all toil with.

my own parents came from very humble backgrounds. My father had 6 years of schooling, my mother completed eight. Both worked in the hospitality field (chinese restaurants, takeaway, waiter/waitressing) for most of their adult lives. Long arduous hours in loud, hot, and unrelenting environments. Both endured and passed on the value of discipline and gratitude to me; qualities which I hold dear to this day, even though my own working life and career has been a cakewalk compared to what they lived with.

The point being that the opportunities for life experience and digestion of interactions is always available. One can become bitter ... or one can find a higher purpose in what we call 'work'. After all, the whole 'chop wood, carry water' thing is not just about taking care of the fundamentals of one's existence, but rather it is in the attitude with which we direct our attention to those fundamentals.

I am glad to be working in a team environment with a bunch of other quirky, talented, and even unpredictable individuals. The comraderie is like nothing else.