hiya,
just thought i'd share something i became aware of recently whilst working as a
gardener.
late last year i was travelling around the country and had stopped to see
friends in a town called castlemaine north-west of melbourne, in country
victoria. whilst there i picked up some gardening work through a friend and did
some gardening at a couple of places, working with a very interesting
bibliophile called john.
anyway to cut to the story - i didn't enjoy getting up and going to work - i
didn't want to do it. it wasn't any problem with the work or with john, or the
locations. i only figured out what it was sometime afterwards.
after working with john i spent the best part of a week doing a gardening job
for my friends in castlemaine - to say thanks for letting me stay with them. i
mowed, snipped and tidied their gardens; built two vegetable beds and a 3-bay
composting system and eventually planted it all up (i got a text two days ago
telling me my friends in castlemaine were eating lettuce, basil and tomatoes
from out of their garden). this work was a joy to do - i enjoyed it immensely -
it was creative and absorbing and stress free.
what i realised through all this is that working for money is an essentially
alienating exercise. working for free, or as exchange is quite different - it
is ...noble. it builds trust, friendships, community....
money is the root of all evil?
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