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There's something overlooked about zookeepers and many other professions: it's done _outside_. Being outside, directly under the sun, makes us happy, regardless
by bambax 8y ago
There's something overlooked about zookeepers and many other professions: it's done _outside_. Being outside, directly under the sun, makes us happy, regardless of weather or temperature. I don't think one can be happy being inside all of the time (inside the home, the car, the office, the gym, the mall...)
I see trash collectors every day, singing while doing their job. It's one of the least considered occupation, and maybe least enviable. Yet if we ever saw an office worker sing, we'd think they'd gone crazy.
I think we need to find a way to put a little more Nature in office jobs.
- elindbe2 8y agoThis is so true. Every time there's a nice sunny workday, I'm looking out the window thinking "wtf am I doing in here?". In fact, I think it's possible that many of our feelings of anomie and meaninglessness at work could be a misinterpretation our bodies' signal that says: "hey you! get out of this cave and go gather some berries!"