I would like to write my final paper on the blurry line between what is work and play for a Mover. This will be presented through the personal point of view of my friend who works as a mover at a company Hartford Dispatch. He's mentioned the idea of loading a truck to the game of Tetris. At the point of reaching their destination, the movers must scan the area to figure out what is heavier and should go in the truck first. From there, they all work as a team to wrap and fit the rest of the pieces inside the truck as compactly as possible.

Since forms of play should proceed in the attitude and mood of play, the play aspect of a moving job is driven solely in the mover’s mind. It could be said that he looks at his work as task time when he’s having fun and as labor time when he’s solely doing his job to make money.

The pace of his play is set according to the size of the place he’s moving materials out of and the amount of materials he has to move. The more time it takes to complete a job, the more points ($) he earns. I say points and not spending money, because he puts his salary into his savings. He saves all his money, only to spend it on necessities (groceries, home and his dog… He rarely buys clothes and makes use of what he already has till it wears out) Having been a mover for seven years now, he will take money out of his savings to go on vacation now and then.

The idea of moving people in and out of homes as the end result is interesting to me. He mentioned to me once that he’s moved a family into a house that he'd previously moved one out of that same week. In that aspect his work could seem meaningless and reflect the game aspect of the real estate market in pre-2006 America. During this period houses were bought, remodeled, and sold for a profit in a matter of months. The movers make profit off people’s whim to move in and out of spaces, by transporting their material goods. A lot of the times customers let movers take what they wish to discard and this is how my friend has gotten all of his furniture.

Through the pattern of my friend’s lifestyle, I noted that not only his work, but his activity at home is predominantly extensive. He chooses to do housework on days he does not have to go to work. This leads me to believe that he looks at his whole day’s activity as tasks (even when he is doing labor work, it is simply task time.) When there is noting laborious to exert his energy on, he likes to do thousand piece puzzles, word and number puzzles, and play scrabble. He also plays DVDs of movies and T.V shows he likes when he idles. If he watches T.V. it is predominantly in the background while he winds down to go to bed and thus, his intake is chiefly extensive.

In my essay I would like to incorporate the theory of task and labor time, as well as of implosive and extensive work to outline his mundane life of play.