Professional Bloodbath

I just wrote 'bloodbath' in an email to a client. It's part of a serious discussion.

I love this job.

I first met this client while working in my car. I was just a blob in the dark with eyes sparkling every now and then and he was in his room on the other side of the planet. He'd done this before, an online chat across the world. I was, in his words, a virgin to this.

This is where the dogging analogy ends.

We chatted online for two or three hours, until my battery died, about zombies and vampires and how to make better monsters and why ours was going to kill, again, and again.

Then I had to charge him for my time. It was amazing to to me then that I get to charge for this, but he needed my expertise and I can't help that I'm in love with what I do.

Hating work doesn't make it work.

Hating what you're doing doesn't make it more viable or valuable than something you enjoy.

work

wəːk/

noun

noun: work; plural noun: works; plural noun: the works

1.

activity involving mental or physical effort done in order to achieve a result.

"he was tired after a day's work in the fields"

synonyms:

labour, toil, exertion, effort, slog, drudgery, the sweat of one's brow;

verb

verb: work; 3rd person present: works; past tense: worked; past participle: worked; past tense: wrought; past participle: wrought; gerund or present participle: working

1.

be engaged in physical or mental activity in order to achieve a result; do work.

"an engineer who was working on a design for a more efficient wing"

synonyms:

toil, labour, exert oneself, slave (away), plod away;