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On 26-10-2009 16:57, Shay wrote:
> andrel wrote:
> > On 26-10-2009 1:42, Shay wrote:
> >> Jeremy "UncleHoot" Praay wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I'm 41 as of yesterday.
> >>
> >> Happy birthday.
> >
> > Thanks. Oh, it wasn't directed to me. (47 today)
>
> Happy birthday to you, Andrel.
>
Thanks ;)
> >
> > Some of those wheels may have been more like balls. Anyway,
> > are you sure other people feel the same way about you being
> > unproductive?
>
> A matter of perspective. I have a very good analogy in mind.
>
> My uncle creates custom carpentry. Today he'll build a chair, tomorrow a
> door, and next week a roll-top desk. He is able to apply his aptitudes
> and experience to each of these projects and produce an acceptable
> number of quality pieces. As remuneration for this production, he
> receives a nice living along with challenge and satisfaction for himself.
>
> However, having one day spent six hours on a single custom chair, he
> could the next day produce ten identical chairs in the same amount of
> time. This would be less challenging and produce less job satisfaction
> but would bring him other, more tangible rewards ($$$$, more time with
> his wife).
>
> There are rewards for doing and rewards for having done. I find the
> former more appealing, but do recognize that the rewards for doing
> evaporate the moment the doing is complete and (perhaps more
> importantly) that the rewards for doing are not easily shared with
> others. I suspect I will always prefer the rewards for doing, but am
> curious to experience the rewards for having done.
For some reason I would still call your uncle productive and therefore
you as well.
I do sort of the same. I have made plaster casts for ceramics. For me
the process is the important thing. After the cast is finished I make
one or at most a few ceramic things with it. If I do more than one that
is because I want to see the effect of a different firing technique.
After I made them I don't care if somebody else uses them too.
If I want to make money with it (I don't, still happily working in
cardiology and in teaching), I need somebody else to help me.
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