<div class="gmail_quote">On 27 August 2012 22:36, Anders Sandberg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I am often thinking about this, since I live an ultra-privileged life as an Oxford scholar. Sure, I do grant hunting and need to publish or perish, but let's face it: it is a creative job with no heavy lifting, light demands and very flexible hours in a lovely place.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Mmhhh. I suspect that "creative" work, either as a philosopher or a music composer or an entrepreneur or even a politician, can actually be much more demanding, competitive, challenging and actually painful and/or risky than a 9-to-5 clerk-level employment. <br>
<br>And for sure I do not envy, say, the stupid but unavoidable daily tasks of Queen Elizabeth, for that matter.<br><br>It is true however that the higher you are on the social ladder the more likely you are to find yourself in a better position to manage yourself rather than having others managing you.<br>
<br>But I am not sure this has much to do with *working* or finding some niche where you do not.<br><br>-- <br>Stefano Vaj<br>