Work= Occupation
James Watt was a lazy boy. He got bored watching the rotating shaft and signaling about excess rotation so he invented a feedback loop regulator to do that. It is called the Watt's regulator. Then he invented the steam engine.
Robert Wood was a very lazy and mischievous boy. He did not like that his backyard was full of puddles after every rain because it was on the lower level than the neighbor's . So he used a siphon to pump the water to the neighbor's yard. Then he proceeded with his fun until he became the most prolific inventor in the US history.
One Russian writer said that a man must know how to kill a wooly mammoth and a woman must know how to prepare a meal from it. That is a work of a man has to be associated with making some independent decisions; it mustn't be structured. Some people obviously will mention a military occupation as a highly structured one. But military is a surrogate, a very ancient one but a surrogate nonetheless. Just like a church it isnot a real occupation. It satisfies certain requirements of it such as a strife for victory but every army is a tool of destruction first and foremost. The police is much more real as occupation.. Law enforcement on the streets requires non- standard thinking though guided by the book. Detective work, figuring out a puzzle, thrill of risk, putting your life on the line- all those qualities are the components of building a man's character as well as the inevitable camaraderie. There is not and should not be any discrimination on the force- there are a plenty of women there and that's great. But nearly every boy will consider somewhere on his way to become a police officer the same way as nearly every woman would consider becoming an elementary school teacher. Thrill rules.
I sound extremely misogynistic but honesty is the best policy.
Relentless, sometimes pathological pursuit of a thrill in occupation is the primary man's virtue. To build a cathedral different from the baseline, to paint the automobile in all colors of the rainbow, to drive faster than others, to have more women than anyone, to earn more money, just for the excitement- that's what real men crave. They can forgive anything for the perspective. Remember the movie "Pursuit of Happyness'? That homeless man shot for a job with no salary. He had a child, what kind of a father we see here? There were elements of a fairy-tale but the bottom line was that he risked everything for a dream and won. Not only he risked his life- he risked the life of his child. That's pathological but true. In another movie "Wall Street' Bud Fox went to Gordon Gecco because he was bored to death. Hundreds, even thousands of young, able bodied men sit on their tucheses at the phones or computers every day. What do you do then? You create an opportunity to run around. To have fun, to be excited, to live life to the fullest. Romeo saw Juliet only once and she was already his- he would burn the whole Verona in necessary. That simple. At the same time in a natural way the pursuer is not a perfectionist. In the movie "Mona Lisa Smile' Mrs. Watson is a woman down to the core: she is progressive and open-minded about her occupation and totally limited and unforgiving at the same time. Ok, the man she liked invented his war stories. Big deal. No harm done- he did not become rich because of that. She considered herself so involved in changing the world that she forgot to change herself in it. Between two men it would cost a couple of beers and the matter would be closed. There are more important things in life. Girls, for instance.
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