Doing something you enjoy at times of your own choosing and making a living from it: now tell me, is that work?
Tom HodgkinsonIn this age of getting what you want and getting it now, the simple pleasure of browsing is often forgotten.
Tom HodgkinsonA conclusion Iโve come to at the Idler is that it starts with retreating from work but itโs really about making work into something that isnโt drudgery and slavery, and then work and life can become one thing.
Tom HodgkinsonDeleting 200 spams a day is a drag. And I was checking my email constantly, rather than getting on with my real work, which is reading and writing. Email was becoming a distraction, a burden rather than a liberation.
Tom HodgkinsonWhen stuck years ago in a job I hated, my only friend was the public bench. As the tedious mornings dragged on, how I would long for the lunch hour, when I would be able to escape the torture of the office and stroll over to the churchyard and into the comforting wooden embrace of one of its benches.
Tom Hodgkinson