Working refers to all of the meta tasks of living that need to be done to keep life moving. For example, eating is not work, but gathering food and building the tools of a kitchen are work. Generally, work can be grouped into the following categories:
- maintaining resources, tools, and envs needed to live.
- laboring: performing a sequence of actions to generate goods/services that you can then sell to an employer/customer for money
- writing is my profession/vocation/career/etc
- selling labor to exchange for money or resources/tools/envs
- applying for jobs
- learning to track actions, get feedback, and adapt continuously to learn new skills that are valuable in changing markets.
Other forms of labor
- craftsmen: merchants/sellers, designers/R&D, builders, maintenace, operators
- resources: farmers, loggers, miners, diggers, hunters
- bodies: nurses, doctors, surgeons, trainers
- structures: foundation, roads, carpentry, concrete, steel, fertilizers, plastics, pharmaceuticals
- systems: plumbing, electrical, hvac
- machines: roads, bicycles, cars, trains, planes
- government: legislative, executive/military, judicial, lawyers, accountants
- media: writers, journalists, podcasters, youtubers, tv-people, movie-people, porn-people, radio-people
- journalists:
- entertainers: musicians, athletes
- education/religion: teachers, staff