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You had to stay late at the ([[office]] / [[store]]) today.
You had to stay late at the office today.
The phone rang non-stop today and you stayed late for the deadline. Pats on your back and smiles from your boss justified the extra work. Getting commission helps too.
[[...|clockout]]After clocking out, you feel the workload fade away and the desperation of wanting to go home settle in. You also realize that you're hungry - more accurately <em>hangry</em>.
You deliberate on how you should go home. You have an unlimited metrocard but a cab would get you home 30 minutes sooner and spare you ride home with other people - which you've decidedley might not be worth your time right now.
You decide to take ( [[a cab]] / [[the subway home]].)
You had to stay late at the store today.
The store was crowded and your boss begged for you to stay late today. It was one of the few times that your boss made you feel essential or important to the store. It’s not like you actually cared for the store though - you’ll do whatever gets you closer to that overtime wage.
[[...|clockout]]You settle in the cab and tell the driver your address. In the comfort of the cool AC, you watch in wonder how quickly the blocks that you trudge by feet everyday disappear by cab - even during rush hour.
The cab cost you $35 but you justify the speedy ride home as worth it.
You eventually get home and find an advertisement for food delivery tucked underneath your door.
[[...|home]]It’s rush hour and the subway is crowded - too crowded for you to get a seat. As you hold onto a pole, you close your eyes in an attempt to block out the vision of exhausted faces and raised arms from your face. But the smell of polyester soaked in sweat combined with the rustling of feet and being bumped by travelers prevent you from forgetting where you are.
You eventually get home and find an advertisement for food delivery tucked underneath your door.
[[...|home]]You place the advertisement on your kitchen table and take a moment to settle in.
You are dizzy with hunger at this point and stand in front of your fridge while deciding what to do.
How quick will it take me to make dinner? How quick can delivery get here?
What am I going to feed myself? This pizza flyer has a cheap deal. But pizza? Is that what I want?
[[...|laptop]]You think of what is in your fridge and type in keywords for recipes. You think of what’s down the street and salivate over options. Time comes into factor. You think of how long it will take for you to cook dinner and compare it against how long it takes for delivery to get your place. As your body aches, you are reminded of what happened at work today and how much your hard work is worth. Then you compare it to the amount of how much your work thinks it is worth. You start to think of your self worth and how hard you’ve worked to eat and provide for yourself.
[[...|hungry]]You start to realize that you can’t think coherently because you’re so hungry.
([[You make it back to the fridge and start to pull out products for you to cook with|cookDinner]] / [[you pick up the pamphlet and start selecting the cheapest treats that you can give yourself|cheapFood]] / [[you open your laptop and let your cravings guide you through the world of online food delivery|seamless]].) Dinner was satisfying.
[[...|end]]Dinner was satisfying.
[[...|end]]Dinner was satisfying.
[[...|end]]Dinner was satisfying.
As soon as you started eating, you realized how hunger blinds you from deciding practically - <<if visited("cookDinner")>>but you’re proud of yourself for cooking yourself a delicious dinner despite of it.<<endif>><<if visited("cheapFood")>>but you feel only slightly guilty for ordering dinner but justify the decision because it was cheap and you’ve worked hard today.<<endif>><<if visited("seamless")>>but your dinner was delicious and you justify yourself as worth it.<<endif>>
As your mind clears up, you make the tally of your day and how much you've done. In your afternoon alone you,<<if visited("store")>> took care of an enumerable amount of customers,<<endif>><<if visited("office")>> secured a deal for work,<<endif>><<if visited("the subway home")>> dragged yourself through the subway,<<endif>><<if visited("a cab")>> took a cab home,<<endif>><<if visited("cookedDinner")>> made yourself a satisfying meal,<<endif>><<if visited("cheapFood")>> ordered a cheap dinner to spare you the effort,<<endif>><<if visited("seamless")>> ordered an expensive dinner to treat yourself, <<endif>> and now here you are, at home with a few hours to yourself before getting ready to go to work again tomorrow.
The cost of and the money attached to it all settles in. What is happiness worth? What is your work worth? How much does your boss think it’s worth? Are my decisions even worth my time? Is this what I want to be doing with my money? Is this what I want to be doing with my time?
But more importantly, how much is time really worth?