andrewducker | Interesting Links for 06-09-2023

I definitely want somewhere between b) and your option of c) other geekdom.

I prefer developer geeks in a different language or stack, or who nerd on a different aspect of sailing or self-sufficiency or music or whatever.

I have never understood partnerships where the partners are if the "yes dear, here's your dinner" ilk.

Though...a THIRD partner who did all that would be USEFUL, I have no idea WHY they'd hook up to be "mum" to a pair of geeks...

Jane and I have regularly said that we'd find a wife very useful around the house.

(As it is, we have a cleaner one morning a week.)

That would be the highly-paid professional cook/housekeeper...

Well yes, money is a reason :-) But I don't have enough

But I'm from a family background/social class where we would be far more likely to BE the "servants" than to employ them.

So no handyman or gardener for me either.

We have a team of gardeners. They come round for about half an hour every three weeks, and charge me about £35 for blitzing the garden back into shape.

They are woefully underpaid! There is no way the ones here would charge so little. How can they live? How can they even afford tools?

And I guess you did know people who had gardeners, cleaners etc. when you were a child? I never did. I know people who *were* those things. It seems a stubbornly hard mentality to shift for me. Sigh.

I don't think we knew people who had gardeners when I was a kid. Or at any point up to about three years ago, when we got one.

I assume they afford to live because they go round a whole bunch of places and spend almost no time at each one.

Half an hour of hour many people's time? They need tools, fuel, a vehicle (or transport fares) just to operate. They spend time traveling. Maintaining tools. I'm almost certain the economics cannot work out unless (and maybe even if) they live in overcrowded squalor far from town.

:-) still more than me :-)

Stay-at-home mothers do it all the time.

I'm sure they do (as well as many many other tasks!)

Sadly, there's just me to do everything, including a full time job (which is at least from home).

My wee cat does pest control, at least he pulls his (4kg) weight :-)

(It wasn't the plan, but my housemate's job, that took him 2 years to find, is site work, so he is now never here)

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