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One of the best jobs I've had was working part time at a pizza place in my early 20's. I made just enough for rent, food, and fun. The job was easy to be good

One of the best jobs I've had was working part time at a pizza place in my early 20's. I made just enough for rent, food, and fun. The job was easy to be good at, but rewarding because I was helping actual people. Most of the time it was slow so you got to joke around with the other employees. But sometimes you'd get slammed and have to organize your crew to work efficiently for a few hours, which was stressful, but very fun to figure out and do well at. I think about that a lot when my current software job becomes really boring or difficult. EDIT: Oh, and I was certainly less sedentary being on my feet all day. I slept really really well after a long shift.

lokalfarm 5y ago
This is more a reflection on that period of your life than the work itself. Part time at a pizza shop in your teens/20s? Time of your life! Doing that exact same work in your 30s when you're trying provide for a partner and potentially kids? When you have bills stacking up, rent is shooting through the roof, and your hopes of one day owning a home are slowly circling the drain? What do you do now, when that is your sole skillset to fall back on? Being on your feet doesn't feel nearly as nice as it did when you were in your early 20s. Those slow times become stressful because you know it means you could be out of a job like that. Sure, people might always want to eat pizza ("there's always work") but that doesn't mean your quality of life is going to increase _at all_ because of that. Your only hope out - opening your own pizza shop - is an incredibly fragile & stressful undertaking. You're much more likely to lose all the money you borrow/invest into it than ending up with a successful restaurant that provides for you financially.