A young Austrian bodybuilder arrives in America and starts looking for work.
He can find only menial labor that pays almost nothing. Cleaning up construction debris. Lifting crates onto trucks.
He does this work with a grim face and without complaint. His employer, a small, apprehensive man, sometimes apologizes when he asks the bodybuilder to do particularly unglamorous tasks.
When he’s asked to haul thirty splintery wooden crates up to the second floor:
“It is fine. I get to strengthen my biceps, and enjoy how strong they already are.”
When he’s asked to gather all the scrap iron from a factory floor and put it into a bin:
“It is good. I get to strengthen my back, and enjoy how strong it already is.”
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I'm David, and Raptitude is a blog about getting better at being human -- things we can do to improve our lives today.
It all pretty the opposite if you're not in the US :) Since 2022 I've changed 3 countries and I'm planning to emigrate to the fourth one. I've had so much novelty and so many things to adapt to. However, time had never run so fast for me as in 2022...