ChipButty on Nostr: I spent 10 years as a bicycle messenger in the 80’ and 90's in San Francisco & ...
I spent 10 years as a bicycle messenger in the 80’ and 90's in San Francisco & Boston. You would never come across any of us that would swap riding a bike all day in busy congested traffic for putting on a suit & working behind a desk. But the number of times we'd hear from those people in those offices & skyscrapers how they envied us was very revealing.
To be honest virtually none of them would survive long riding on those busy streets dodging taxis, jumping up onto curbs, blasting through red lights & riding for blocks in the wrong direction as we constantly had to, but the idea of being outdoors with freedom as opposed to cooped up in sterile office environments appealed to them. I've been in thousands of offices. never spent a single day working in one.
To be honest virtually none of them would survive long riding on those busy streets dodging taxis, jumping up onto curbs, blasting through red lights & riding for blocks in the wrong direction as we constantly had to, but the idea of being outdoors with freedom as opposed to cooped up in sterile office environments appealed to them. I've been in thousands of offices. never spent a single day working in one.