On working and playing

[stephbg]

There are some professions that also make perfectly reasonable hobbies. You can both work and play with cars, trains, computers, food, paint and music. Even children.



However...it's not quite universal.

Working with matches, for example. Playing with matches takes you to another place entirely. In our great dig-it-up-then-ship-it-out state plenty of people work with explosives. Playing with explosives just makes me think of Mythbusters.

What about chickens? Work, sure. Play, not so much.

Cheese? Accident victims?

With what else can you feasibly work, but not quite get away with playing with*?

(*) Grammatical advice for that sentence invited and welcomed.

Comments

[sassamifrass.livejournal.com]

I had to read this aloud XD

Working with insecurities, playing with insecurities? The difference between a counselor and a comedian? ...Maybe not.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

I think it works in all the right/wrong ways :-)

work/play with: The criminally insane

Hmmm.