Everyday someone asks me how far has the house come along? And I tell them we are settled and functional but still a month to go. Then again, the second question that comes is what do I do all day? My answer is always the same; I have the most unproductive job on earth. And time just flies away in this non-productive state of mine. How, you ask?
All day long, I watch over plumbers, carpenters, masons and electricians. They ask for inputs, I give them my piece of mind, but they do what they want to. I request them to follow instructions but they do what they want to. I scold them when later the job is not satisfactory but they still do what they want to. I am just a stationary factor in their lives currently who appears out of nowhere in each room and just chooses to watch them. That's how unproductive my job is.
I simply watch as the workers go about doing their chores. I try to impose authority by telling them who is boss but they still go about doing their chores. I spend hours just watching them like a shadow but they still go about doing their chores.
At the end of a standard unproductive day, I inspect who did what and report to the Master of the house. The Master who had earlier given everyone a daily to-do also receives hourly and sometimes bi-hourly telephonic reports and queries on the job. Sometimes I also report through emails. Perhaps that is when I become productive. All that heavy reporting. Apart from this, if you ask me, I do nothing at all the whole day! I simply stand and stare as the rest of the world does their productive jobs....
A Lazy R
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