Surfboard repair, and shop cats
March 14, 2017 8:55 PM Subscribe
Websurfing? Yeah, there's fascinating stuff out there I knew nothing about this, happened on it while looking up heat damage on computer boards.
Delightful stuff here, whether you're into it or not.
You know what ?
Im sitting today as usual at my desk, I have a very well paid corporate position. Looking at all this pictures of repair jobs of board my mind goes "hmm... i wonder what she charges for such a job.. let's say 200 $ ? and is a multi-hour commitment, boils down to - 30 $ an hour maybe - if and when the customer shows up again and so on".
Being jaded after so many years of this, I think no way I will even get out of bed for that money let alone take the business risk and so on.
And then suddendly a deep sadness takes over me.
Is it all what is left over of me after 30 years ? The reality reduced to viability calculations ? The world shrunk to an equation of few parameters that I can resolve super quickly and that are the base for me discarding options - the base that shapes my life. Then youthful lady-chasing surfing pennyless me has been hollowed out, like a star dying - no more shedding light but just reduced to a core no able to shine anymore.
And yet while I sit here ruminating on my self built prison (which has me as the only prisoner), outside there is a reality. Of people doing what they love and what they like to do. That dont have a meeting agenda planned out months in advance and god forbid you miss one step.
Just a tought on this Wed morning in office.
posted by elcapitano at 1:53 AM on March 15, 2017 [11 favorites]
Im sitting today as usual at my desk, I have a very well paid corporate position. Looking at all this pictures of repair jobs of board my mind goes "hmm... i wonder what she charges for such a job.. let's say 200 $ ? and is a multi-hour commitment, boils down to - 30 $ an hour maybe - if and when the customer shows up again and so on".
Being jaded after so many years of this, I think no way I will even get out of bed for that money let alone take the business risk and so on.
And then suddendly a deep sadness takes over me.
Is it all what is left over of me after 30 years ? The reality reduced to viability calculations ? The world shrunk to an equation of few parameters that I can resolve super quickly and that are the base for me discarding options - the base that shapes my life. Then youthful lady-chasing surfing pennyless me has been hollowed out, like a star dying - no more shedding light but just reduced to a core no able to shine anymore.
And yet while I sit here ruminating on my self built prison (which has me as the only prisoner), outside there is a reality. Of people doing what they love and what they like to do. That dont have a meeting agenda planned out months in advance and god forbid you miss one step.
Just a tought on this Wed morning in office.
posted by elcapitano at 1:53 AM on March 15, 2017 [11 favorites]
Well, that got dark.
posted by Literaryhero at 5:07 AM on March 15, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by Literaryhero at 5:07 AM on March 15, 2017 [4 favorites]
Well, elcapitano, seems like you have som thinking to do. :)
posted by Harald74 at 6:34 AM on March 15, 2017
posted by Harald74 at 6:34 AM on March 15, 2017
The cats are super cute!
posted by bile and syntax at 6:41 AM on March 15, 2017
posted by bile and syntax at 6:41 AM on March 15, 2017
> Well, that got dark
It's a big interesting planet, viewed through the Internet.
As noted elsewhere, the Total Perspective can be intimidating
"Originally created by its inventor Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife (who was always telling him to get a "sense of proportion"), the Vortex is now used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here". The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind; it was stated that the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul."
posted by hank at 12:06 PM on March 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
It's a big interesting planet, viewed through the Internet.
As noted elsewhere, the Total Perspective can be intimidating
"Originally created by its inventor Trin Tragula as a way to get back at his wife (who was always telling him to get a "sense of proportion"), the Vortex is now used as a torture and (in effect) killing device on the planet Frogstar B. The prospective victim of the TPV is placed within a small chamber wherein is displayed a model of the entire universe - together with a microscopic dot bearing the legend "you are here". The sense of perspective thereby conveyed destroys the victim's mind; it was stated that the TPV is the only known means of crushing a man's soul."
posted by hank at 12:06 PM on March 15, 2017 [1 favorite]
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