As you may or may not know, I live in an entirely urban environment. From my condo's living room, I can see a fairly good-sized swath of the area just north of Seattle's downtown core. Tonight, the only traffic on those streets consists of Metro buses and a street sweeper. One solitary, deliberate street sweeper.
I haven't worked very many different jobs in my life, so my experience is limited, but it sure seems like operating a street sweeper would be one of the most frustrating jobs you could land. Every night, you get to drive around mostly empty city streets at speeds only slightly faster than your average Segway. These streets are filled with traffic during the day, but at night, no one's around to impede your progress. Yet there you are, moving at 10 mph, restrained by nothing but your sense of duty.
Maybe you could listen to music the whole time, or recorded books? Oops- probably not. Earplugs are the order of the day with all the brushes and vacuums operating around you. I think I would go nuts.
I would have to overcompensate for all of this exaggerated octegenarian driving during my free time, and that would probably lead to a pile of speeding tickets. Not such a pleasant outcome. And just to twist the knife a little more, my street sweeper salary probably wouldn't cover a car truly worthy of heaps of speeding tickets.
So, I suppose I should be more appreciative of the job I have :)
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