“Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways”.

- Stephen Vincent Bénet

And I’m wasting away my life.

You must all have thought about what professions you’d be good at. But have you thought about which you’d completely suck at? I know a couple of things I could never work with.

1. The army. This could never work because of so many reasons. First of all the fact that I’m a pacifist obviously would be a major problem. Another problem is that I have a hard time taking orders. Not to mention my physical unfitness, fear of dangers and dying and the fact that I’m overly sensitive. I’d be the worst soldier ever.

2. Anything involving children is a big No-no. By children I mean anyone under the age of eighteen. Small children I just don’t like and too many teenagers are too much trouble. I was a nice teenager who respected my teachers but I have vivid memories of how some of my classmates weren’t so nice and didn’t have any respect whatsoever for the grown ups in school. I wouldn’t want to be one of those grown ups.

3. Nursing isn’t for me either. It must be wonderful to help people but I wouldn’t want to be the one having to… touch all those strangers. I like to keep my distance to people. The fact that I have to turn my face away when I see operations on TV doesn’t help either. Blood I can handle but not deep wounds and cuts.

4. Speaking of cuts, I could never work in the meat industry, butchering animals or preparing the meat. Actually not because of the grossness factor (which is huge) but because I don’t eat meat and the very thought of killing an animal or packaging their flesh is repulsing. This goes against my ethical beliefs.

5. Cooking is something I not for my sake but for the sake of the rest of the world should stay away from. Since I have no interest in cooking I haven’t exactly worked on improving my skills within that area. I mostly succeed if I follow a recipe but don’t ask me to be creative or improvise. The only way to describe my cooking improvisations is epic fail.

So, which jobs do you think you’re not suited for?

I looked at old phone bills and was shocked when I realized how much time I spend on the phone. This is the number of hours I’ve called out from my phone this year:

January: 18 hours
February: 25 hours
March: 25 hours
April: 25 hours
May: 25 hours
June: 33 hours
July: 20 hours
August: 23 hours
September: 16 hours
October: 11 hours
November: 11 hours

Mind you, I also receive phone calls so add at least another ten hours every month. Funny thing is I actually only talk on length with three people. Everyone else I only call to make plans, ask something etc and those calls never last more than a few minutes.

Notice that since September the number of phone hours have sunk drastically. That’s because in late August I got a new job located near my parents house so now mum and I have lunch together five days a week, making it unnecessary for me to call her every day like I used to.

Now you must think my phone bills is extreme but actually it’s not. I don’t have a home phone, only a cell, with a extremely good phone subscription. I call the entire regular phone net and everyone with the same cell phone operator (like my dad and two of my siblings) for free for a very decent sum every month.

Haha I just realized I sounded exactly like someone who’s blogging for money, writing about how many hours I spend on the phone only to then moving onto “recommending” my phone operator which I’m so pleased with. Well I’m not blogging for money so I’m not going to recommend anything.

Now I’m going to cook Maria’s fish stew. If you’re able to read the recipe, which is written in Swedish, you should really try it out. It’s delicious!