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RE: When it Rains, it Pours... and Other Stories (Ulog no. 7)
The proverbial hamster on a wheel, running but never making it anywhere. At least when I have days like this I know I am one day closer to collecting my next paycheck. I am assuming you are self-employed and so on a day like that, I imagine there is very little money coming in and no 1/14 progress toward a paycheck to celebrate. That must be pretty rough.
This is only tangentially related, but one of the observations I have made over the years popped into my head while reading this. One day I realized that when you see something in your daily life and think wow, someone should really do something about that, that "someone" is almost always the government.
Sometimes I ponder the possibility that government is both "evil" and "unavoidable." Things like infrastructure in a town... it won't work if we're just a group of individuals with shovels, and then the whole "MY neighborhood, but not THEIRS" sets in, because most humans are inherently self-involved.
Yes, I'm self-employed — my wife is, as well — and it IS in a way a hamster wheel, but at least it is a hamster wheel we've chosen to be on, voluntarily. That said, it does get frustrating when we know that part of the running we do is related to someone else's incompetence...