Slothfulness

I don't know if it's in my nature, or if I'm just bloody lazy but I really could do nothing all day. Maybe not nothing, but almost nothing. So, pretty much if I could be paid to do what I do at the moment, I would be a happy man.

For those of you who don't know, I have a job as an Air Traffic Controller, but I have to wait until June before my training starts. Now this isn't a big problem but it does make getting a job difficult because people don't want to employ me because I'm only going to work for a few months. And while I don't mind doing nothing, my parents do. Which is a valid objection, but it doesn't change how potential employers feel about me.

Anyway, so at the moment I 'have' a job, but I have nothing to do in the meantime, and I love it. I can wake up at any time in the day, I can go to bed at any time and not worry about having to be up for anything. Pretty much all I do is listen to music, read, dota, go out with my friends and then a little housework. So I water the garden, wash up and clean the bathroom. That kind of thing. And if I had a choice I would live like this for the rest of my life. It is brilliant.

But I meet lots of people who just can't bring themselves to do nothing. They have to do something all the time, even if there is very little to do. I have a friend who is at university, and less than half way through his holidays he was happy to go back. He'd had enough time off and wanted to start working again. That's not me.

When I was at school people used to get bored during holidays and want to go back to school. I never wanted holidays to end. I've just never had that feeling of 'I need to get back to work'. I could just sit around thinking and reading all day, no qualms.

But is it because I'm lazy? Or is it because I'm just wired that way? I don't know, but I suspect it's a bit of both.

The other thing is that unfortunately life doesn't work the way I wish it did, and I will actually have to do some work in order to live, which is a pity. So, I guess I'll have to go to my job in June, and I'll have to just make the best of earning money, even though it's not my goal.

To be fair, earning money isn't difficult to get used to...