[jyl]

There’s plenty of jobs I can’t do for physical reasons. Sure you can do something for a few hours, but eight hours a day and after not long you’re disabled. Perk of age!

Jobs I can’t do for mental/emotional reasons - I think not many would be off limits. I’m pretty good at putting on a shell and switching off the emotions, empathy, etc. Social worker for abused or addicted people? Pediatric oncologist? Law enforcement in Dregsville? Sure - I wouldn’t be a good one - in fact I’d probably be the worst, the kind that everyone complains about, the kind of person you don’t want doing the job - but I’d get my paycheck.

A couple years ago, my sister and I spent three weeks in Taipei cleaning out my late mother’s apartment. It was a bad place. So full of trash and hoarded stuff you could hardly move around, rotted stuff and empty cans and insects, medical supplies and pills and bodily fluids/bloodstains, little stashes of the few precious things she still had hidden away, a fancy hat with dents, expensive shoes under piles of soiled clothes, no lights or electricity. My sister went back to the hotel and cried every night, she still has PTSD. I put on the shell, felt nothing, and still feel nothing.

P.S. This assumes little things like knowledge, skill, talent are ignored . . .