![]() Everyone is employed in work they find meaningful however, no one ever stays at the office past suppertime. Known the world over for its exhilarating night life, Barrel also boasts an inspiring live music scene. Then they wake up, have supper, shower, and go out. The best waves come in the morning, so the majority of The Spit’s population can be found on the beach between 6 and 10 am.Īfter work, the Barrelers usually nap for a few hours. A typical work day in Barrel begins at 11am and lasts until 4 or 5 pm. Barrelers, in much the same way, never work more than six hours a day. The rest of their time besides that taken up in work, eating and sleeping, is left to every man’s discretion” (More 50). They then sup, and at eight o’clock, counting from noon, go to bed and sleep eight hours. In Thomas More’s Utopia, the Utopians did not “wear themselves out with perpetual toil, from morning to night, as if they were beasts of burden…dividing the day and night into twenty-four hours, appoint six of these for work three of which are before dinner, and three after. This stems from their attitude toward work. Their boards outsell all international competition year in and year out.īarrelers, as a rule, are the calmest race of people on the planet. Of course, the lion share of Barrelers work in the surfing industry, manufacturing surf boards and surf equipment. ![]() ![]() Barrelers, as they are known, enjoy an international reputation as intelligent and calm money managers. Most people in Barrel work at forestry, maintaining the rainforests, or zoology, looking after the animals in the forest, and many also work in finance. Like the Utopians, Barrelers’ “women as well as men, learn one or other of the trades formerly mentioned” (More 50). School and teachers devote time and energy to encourage children to find a trade that mirrors their passion. Similarly, in Barrel, everybody cleaves to their passion early on in life. In Thomas More’s Utopia, “every man has some peculiar trade to which he applies himself, such as the manufacture of wool, or flax, masonry, smith’s work, or carpenter’s work…there is no sort of trade that is not in great esteem among them” (More 49). ![]()
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