Maintenance—the process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved.
I call these things you refer to “Maintenance jobs”
I think that the answer you are looking for is in the definition of maintenance
They are a trade-off for the things you enjoy
∴ you must do them to enjoy the things they generate
OR
∴ you don’t have to accept the trade-off if you don’t enjoy the result as much as you hate the maintenance.
In other words:
Life has a cost, and you must pay it.
Nobody said you had to enjoy paying it.
There’s joy to be had in projects to reduce maintenance jobs
I quite love finding ways to reduce my maintenance burden, for example:
Washing machine (look up the unholy task on manually washing your clothing, then worship your washing machine)
Dishwashers (I calculated a ~4000% ROI per year)
Clothes Dryers (much lower ROI, still positive depends on your time value)
Robot vacuum cleaner plus no carpet (very little time spent vacuuming)
Learning to cook efficiently (Could write a book, but consider time spent vs happiness vs $ cost)
Egg, spinach and cheese pie (bought pastry sheets) (10 − 15 minutes prep = lunch for four days)
Rice cooker rice plus chicken tenders plus frozen veggies plus sauce (10 minute dinner)
Rice medley − 1 cup brown rice + 0.5 cups lentils simmer for 40 minutes add a can of beans, mix, portion, add grated cheese, sriracha and soy sauce. Heat in the microwave—yum snack.
Honestly baking cakes and cookies is easy as
Replace your lawn with whatever you can get away with (I’m re-wilding honest)
Design your garden for low maintenance wherever you can
Live closer to work
Biking is the most cost-efficient transport method (I hear cars may be needed in America)
Replace hard to maintain things with easy to maintain things
I will not buy a shirt i have to iron
I will not buy kitchen things I cannot dishwash (except cast iron pans, worth in that case)
I believe the FIRE movement had a bunch to say on jobs, minimalism has some good points, permaculture has some great ideas (kinda process optimisation for non-engineers)
Have fun finding better ways to beat back the menace of entropy!
Maintenance—the process of preserving a condition or situation or the state of being preserved.
I call these things you refer to “Maintenance jobs”
I think that the answer you are looking for is in the definition of maintenance
They are a trade-off for the things you enjoy
∴ you must do them to enjoy the things they generate
OR
∴ you don’t have to accept the trade-off if you don’t enjoy the result as much as you hate the maintenance.
In other words:
Life has a cost, and you must pay it.
Nobody said you had to enjoy paying it.
There’s joy to be had in projects to reduce maintenance jobs
I quite love finding ways to reduce my maintenance burden, for example:
Washing machine (look up the unholy task on manually washing your clothing, then worship your washing machine)
Dishwashers (I calculated a ~4000% ROI per year)
Clothes Dryers (much lower ROI, still positive depends on your time value)
Robot vacuum cleaner plus no carpet (very little time spent vacuuming)
Learning to cook efficiently (Could write a book, but consider time spent vs happiness vs $ cost)
Egg, spinach and cheese pie (bought pastry sheets) (10 − 15 minutes prep = lunch for four days)
Rice cooker rice plus chicken tenders plus frozen veggies plus sauce (10 minute dinner)
Rice medley − 1 cup brown rice + 0.5 cups lentils simmer for 40 minutes add a can of beans, mix, portion, add grated cheese, sriracha and soy sauce. Heat in the microwave—yum snack.
Honestly baking cakes and cookies is easy as
Replace your lawn with whatever you can get away with (I’m re-wilding honest)
Design your garden for low maintenance wherever you can
Live closer to work
Biking is the most cost-efficient transport method (I hear cars may be needed in America)
Replace hard to maintain things with easy to maintain things
I will not buy a shirt i have to iron
I will not buy kitchen things I cannot dishwash (except cast iron pans, worth in that case)
I believe the FIRE movement had a bunch to say on jobs, minimalism has some good points, permaculture has some great ideas (kinda process optimisation for non-engineers)
Have fun finding better ways to beat back the menace of entropy!