Loving Work
By Saint Stuart

When I was younger and not as mature as I am now, I dreaded a vital part of life that I now greatly value and enjoy — working. In my 20s life was a prison to me. I did not choose to be born into this society, yet I was forced to labour for the majority of my life just to survive. My aspirations were to philosophize and write, not drive to some office or factory to do monotonous tasks for the next forty years of my life so I could have a roof over my head and food on the table. I became depressed and unmotivated, even suicidal at one point, as I distracted my anxiety with mind-numbing stimulations. I was smoking cigarettes and weed, binge-watching my favourite shows, playing hours of video games and had an unhealthy addiction to pornography. My bad habits were only conditioning me to further failures in life, socially, financially and emotionally. I didn’t have any motivation to change where my future was headed, preferring to drown in my distractions, and ended up in a hospital one night after failing to kill myself.

Fast-forward ten or so years. I’m living closer to my friends and family, working again and on a path to break free of my addictions. I had big debts haunting me and low-paying jobs sustaining me, so my anxiety was still high, but I pushed myself through it and would soon find myself paying off debts easier than I imagined.

Before my outlook on work changed, I was in jobs that weren’t very labour-intensive. My work experience was in computer programming, graphic design, customer service, cashier and tech support. I was good at it and it paid the bills, but I needed a change as the work was becoming sparse where I was at the time. With a love for gardening and plant care, I soon found myself in my first labour job — landscaping.

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