There are SO MANY supposedly "menial" jobs I would love to do, if they were part time, or temporary, and I had some guarantee that my needs would be met throughout. In other words, under current circumstances, if there were no concerns about future employability and the chasm of "quality of life" such behavior now guarantees crossing.

I'm a curious person and I also deeply enjoy physical labor of almost any kind (when it isn't constant, wildly underpaid, and thus soul crushing). I've also been around long enough to discover I am not very unique lol, I am certain there's a sizable bunch of folks who would actually just enjoy spending their time in all kinds of supposedly shitty ways, if things simply didn't feel so goddamn permanently "existential personal risk". We're doing all of this (gestures broadly) so, so stupidly.

[Edit: instead, I presently write software, like a fucking asshole. At least I never write anything I can't feel proud of, and in exchange for that (substantial!) privilege I also get to enjoy a continuously narrowing field of places I can go and work and still respect myself. Lovely stuff.]