Moving Things

It seems to me a lot of people are employed in the same industry: moving stuff from one place to another. I am volunteering at a charity place where I am tasked, when not being surplus to requirements, to move stuff from one place to another

Moving bin bags; cups; toys and most recently clothes. These need to be taken from where someone had neatly placed them (on hangars) to neatly placing them in boxes. Then the hangars need to be taken and placed somewhere else (neatly – although keeping hangars neat is quite difficult) for someone else to use in a different place.

Many years ago I was also tasked in this industry: I worked in a warehouse, moving stuff from the main warehouse down out of the conveyor belts and onto palettes and then onto trucks.

Some of these industries don’t even put another face on it. No, they brazenly state that moving stuff is specifically what they do. Shockingly, these industries are the mail industries: Royal Mail of course, DHL, Parcel Force etc. Some do masquerade as other shops: carpet shops, furniture shops, even some charity shops. These are merely moving industries in other names.

History of this industry stretches far back in time. Neanderthals were employed moving sticks and stones and various items of food that they had killed. Even some monkeys have jobs in this sector – albeit unpaid ones.

Is there anybody not employed in this sector at some time or another? I think not.