Since I spend a lot of my time with a variety of tech gizmos, there are some people who seem curious to “figure out” what I do, and so they ask me to describe what I do. Since this has happened several times before, I have — over many years of their questions and my answers — come to the conclusion that the most appropriate description I can give them is:
I read and I write.
One thing I myself find curious is that many people seem to feel this answer is insufficient. Yet they are rarely able to explicate how they find my answer unsatisfactory. I think they usually find that my answer is unsatisfactory because it does not involve money.
Let me offer some examples of other things I do quite regularly which also do not involve money.
Almost every day, at some point in the morning I stand up. I walk around and go through various motions and then later in the day I might lie down for a little while, but normally at some point in the later evening I will lie down and then sleep for several hours, usually until the next morning again — and then on the next day these steps will start over and sort of repeat themselves again.
Also, throughout regular days like this I will time and again eat stuff I often refer to quite simply as food. I usually chew and swallow it, and then normally I digest it. Anything I no longer want or need, I will excrete. I find that is a sufficiently detailed description of what I do, and no money is directly involved in motivating me to do such things.
Of course I also do many things daily which do involve money, but I think it would be quite far-fetched for anyone to maintain that everything I do requires money for it to happen.
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