"My favorite job of all time was washing dishes. I was good at it, and I could do it on autopilot, and it left my brain free to go braining." I felt the same w

"My favorite job of all time was washing dishes. I was good at it, and I could do it on autopilot, and it left my brain free to go braining." I felt the same way for years about working as a landscape laborer. At the time, my 'information worker' gigs required me to think constantly about the most mundane things. Being a software engineer is a lot better than that, but having the freedom to think about anything you want is a very beautiful thing.