A good friend described one of her friends in this way. So much going on that there wasn’t really time for a job. Seems a reasonable life goal….
This, of course, assumes you have the means to see a paycheck as a luxury or are otherwise able to generate (or receive) some cash to live on that gives you a load of free time.
This is an eye-opening article from SFGate I picked up via WallStreetFighter on what those people are doing that you see out on the street during the workday. Different cities have varying amounts of this type of traffic and we have all seen it. Cities like New York and San Francisco certainly do. Even Seattle has its fair share. If you are like me, you have wondered the same thing both with a little jealousy and amazement – what do these people do? There was a great ad several years ago (still looking for clip) of an SUV in Manhattan with a kayak and bike on top and a guy in a suit looking at it longingly and thinking to himself "It’s Tuesday, people work on Tuesday." Well, not everyone.
This is an entertaining read and sheds some light on what those people in the coffee shop are really doing and what their story is. Also, fair warning, it may make you want to smack these people too.
Venture Vice 
Interesting read. Often (or maybe less often) it is a good idea to get out of the office, take 30 minutes and realize that notwithstanding the economic and social importance of our typical “full day in the office” and related expectations, life does go on all around us, on the “outside”. When I hike across the street for lunch at the behemoth Lenox mall, I see lots of people doing “nothing”. (Of course the value ascribed to that term is relative – many people (stay at home moms with a 2 year old, for example) will say that just getting out of the house is “something”.)
Sometimes, I wonder exactly who is the zoo animal and who is the visitor looking into the cage….?
LikeLike