Odd jobs.
A job is a title we give ourselves to complete a task that operates some form of transaction. Whether that be services, business to business, or charity; there is still a transactional phase in which we embark. As an individual I think it’s our responsibility to align our given interests, skills, and talent with our job titles. Often the closer we align to these sectors, the happier and more productive for society we are as individuals. The issue with most people, is that there is usually a trade off that is made before they can get to this nirvana status within their line of work. This trade off often limits the exploratory phase, and like my traveler analogy, the amount of choice we have to input more data into the overall experience.
Yes, there are those outliers that came out of the womb thinking they wanted to become a doctor or a professional athlete. To a degree, this is a blessing because you can dedicate all your time and energy into something and become exceptional at it. While this is quite romantic and more possible than some may believe it to be, it still doesn’t account for the rest of us. I much like Robert Greene, believe everyone has a superpower they were predestined to do within this life. I think the purpose of working and bettering oneself is to ultimately find said superpower and live in accordance with it. The closer we ride the wave of resonance, the more we can live in the highest versions of ourselves.
That’s the beauty of an odd job. These are lesser known roads to us, all predestined to a degree. For example, I’m a professional dog walker three times a week for thirty minutes. It’s pretty straight forward, walk the dog down the block fifteen minutes, and back the same exact way another fifteen minutes. As a professional dog walker I can tell you this won’t be my forever job, but what I can tell you is that it has gotten me in the habit of becoming reliable for the needs of someone else. It has forced me to slow down my intentions, because as much as I want to speed up my walk, the time allotted does not change. That’s the beauty of the odd job, many times the job title is just the title. The emotions evoked bring forth a new piece of perspective that fits perfectly into the superpower puzzle we all possess. The dog is the conduit, it’s up to me to figure out why.
The other reason odd jobs are incredible is because it exposes you to so many different types of industries. I think people forget that everything we consume was once a thought circulating in the etheric realms. The antennas of certain individuals pulled them into reality and exposed the rest of us to them. Meaning somehow, someway, the computer I’m currently staring at had to have been thought of, produced, and then distributed to me. In uncovering truths about how the transactional world we live in operates, we can start to see where we as individuals can also tap in and pull information to then distribute to consumers. Whether that be a coffee shop creating emotionally perfect atmospheres for digital nomads to hangout in all day, or the welding machine my dad used to create the fence he built. After all, innovation is the curation of tomorrow’s world, it’s best if we lived more intentionally within it.
Thanks for reading.
With love,
Kai
Weekly Poem:
A blip in reality is a blip in possibility
Measured by the individual and their acuity
The wrong road for some, is the treasure map for another
Best we give it a try and discover
