I’m going to spend the majority of my life working, I thought. I don’t want to spend that time always wishing it was the weekend, counting down the minutes to 5:00 P.M. I want to be as happy in my work as possible. I want to be one of those annoying people who say, “I’d do this job even if I didn’t get paid.”

Imagine a guy living in his parent’s basement, over 20, not knowing what to do with his life and his parents slowly nudging him to get a job so at least he could have some money to spend of his own. He decides not on one job but on many – wanting to see what would stick and what he really likes to do

I decided that I’d ask my employers to make a donation to ONE, a campaign I support that fights extreme poverty by advocating policy reform. It just felt right. I’d help raise money and awareness for a great campaign, the company that employed me would get a tax receipt for their donation, and I’d embark on a yearlong internship in which I could try out fifty-two different professions with no commitment to stay at the job.

I was fairly curious now what he would pick, knowing he has no previous experience and no real qualifications to really use. I was thinking maybe option 1 will be the McD of D but he surprised me by going and finding a job at a company his coach worked at as a Bunjee Jump Master for up to $15/h. That is way better than McD so why didn’t he stay? Next job was as an intern at a TV station ushering people in and giving them coffee. No pay.

Ultimately I think we all want to be happy. But what that really means—and how to get there—remains uncertain. I suppose my journey—my pursuit of happiness—represented that search for many people.

I’ve decided to make a table of productivity:

Week – Job	Pay/h
1. Bunjee Jump Master	< 15$
2. Intern at TV Station	–
3. Snowshoe Guide with tours outdoors	<15$
4. Coach at Volleyball Camp	15$
5. Unofficial reporter in Vancouver, Columbia	$31k/year possibly unpaid
6. Florist	$23k/year
7. Yoga Instructor	$24k/year
8. Scooping Dung as a Dairy Farmer	$49k / year
9 Ski Resort Staff
10. Computer Sales Staff
11. Elder Care, staying with the family
12. Framer
13. Research Assistant

I wasn’t the first to have doubts about my direction in life or to question the status quo. Surely most people went down this same path at some point, struggled with the same decisions, asked themselves the same questions. And, judging solely by the number of times I’d hear others complaining about their jobs, perhaps most had come to the same conclusion: That is just the way it is. Accept it. Get a real job.

Well, he spoketh the truth. He tries tho.