I work to support my son. My son hates vegetables.  I like vegetables. I am teaching my son how to recycle. My son wants to throw everything away. I am a bookkeeper. My son is becoming more independent. I appreciate that my son is becoming environmentally conscious.  I grow vegetables. I want to grow carrots, corn, peas, and broccoli. I watch movies and TV.
I am a workaholic.  I am tired. I am 26 years old.  I have debt. I have a job as a software developer. I prefer meat over vegetables. I teach my son about recycling. I am concerned about the environment. I don't eat vegetables often. I want to plant strawberries, blueberries, and herbs. I have a son. I could do this with my son. I work first shift. I am off nights and weekends. I like to be busy. I spend time with my son.
Do you have any recommendations for environmentally-friendly volunteer opportunities? I'll tell you one thing I've done with my son that was fun.  If you live in a place where soda and beer cans and bottles have refunds, you can collect them off the road and elsewhere, return them for the refund, and then donate the money, or a portion of it, to an environmental charity. Oh wow, that is such a great idea! There is usually tons of litter downtown. Maybe we can make it a family activity. What got you and your son started with that? Someone raising money for a sports team knocked on my door and asked if I had any empty soda or beer cans he could have to raise money for their team.  I thought it was a neat idea, and started noticing all the empties on the side of the road and on benches and everywhere else, and thought that it could be a fun way to raise some money, or for my son to raise money and be active.  Sort of a treasure hunt, and one that cleans up town in the process. Wow that was a resourceful kid who introduced you to the idea. I love activities that have multiple purposes! It's like being able to multitask without diverting attention too much. Absolutely. And if you were to do it with your son, I think they'd naturally start to see that physical things can have uses even when they've already been used.  There's nothing more disgusting than a half-empty beer can that's been sitting in a ditch for a year, but when your son sees that that's worth money and can be reused, it might encourage their perspective on reusing and recycling things in general. I love your mindset about this. If we had more parents thinking like you, we'd have at least one part of the environmental crisis solved. Thank you!  I'm not sure I deserve that much credit but I do think it's a fun, productive activity.  Anything exciting happening with your bookkeeping in the last day or so? Whether it was your idea or not, you certainly deserve some credit for taking action on it. That's the part that counts! And as far as bookkeeping goes, I'm keeping the company financially afloat one ledger at a time, haha. Haha!  I'm sure they don't pay you nearly enough then!  Well, sometimes our jobs are our passion, and sometimes they're what allow us to pursue our passions.  I enjoy programming itself, but don't enjoy my job as much, particularly when I'm under time pressure.  So I find whatever joy I can outside of work. Yeah, jobs have this weird way of sucking the joy out of things, even if you love the work. Honestly, I think it's an issue of leadership and environment. Fix those two things and I guarantee most people would enjoy their jobs more. I think that's largely true.  If you were just doing bookkeeping for yourself, would you enjoy the actual process of doing it?