Work

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.