Mark wrote a pseudo-review over on Boing Boing of Matthew Crawford’s book Shop Class as Soul Craft.  I was a network guy for a significant part of my adult life and felt the same sort of disconnect that he talks about about was afraid to talk about it with anybody for fear of seeming ungrateful. I mean, I was being paid stupid amounts of money and when a large portion of the world’s population aren’t sure where their next meal is coming from it seems kind of pissy to whine about not feeling fulfilled at work. What he says is true though. I remember one time a co-worker and I were doing some consulting for a metal fabrication shop and the IT guy was taking us through showing us what they did. Both of us were taken by the production of real things since neither of us actually produced any tangible things of value in our regular work lives.

If you read the comments below the Boing Boing post you’ll see that I’m not the only one that feels that way. I’m taking steps to correct the absence of actual creation in my life. If it’s something that’s missing from yours I suggest you do too.

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