Love the article, CJ!
Every so often we need those reminders. They come to me at odd times. Sometimes it's going shopping. A friend says, hey I'm need to hit XYZ this weekend, want to come? I say why? Weekends are when the normal people go and it's 10X busier then going during the weekday when the 9-to-5ers are all gone. Let's wait until then. And I think about how cool that is.
Or, very much reminded in that article, every so often I have to leave residential NE Philly and head into busy Center City during the week. When that happens, I schedule it so I make it to town by 1:30 to miss the lunch crowd packing the pavements. And then get out of there by 4:30 so I'm ahead of the rush hour home by public transit and cars. And again, I think about how cool it is with this "job" that I can do that.
No tie nooses around the throat, starched collars, or uncomfortable dress oxfords ... no 7am wakeups and dashing for the train and pretending to be a sardine, or bleating the horn in traffic while sucking up exhaust fumes ... no going out when it's pouring rain (unless I'm out of smokes! lol!) to the same stress level, office politics, moronic managers and village idiots ... So sweet!!!
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