A hopeless endeavour, a never ending job, impossible stacking of boxes. Stack them on top they said, an insurmountable task.

During the summer of 2003 I worked as a "Cardboard Box Supervisor" (swedish: kartongresare) at a large cheese packing factory. As fancy as it sounds I was pretty much just looking over the box folding machines and every 20-30 min topping up the glue in one machine and replacing the tape in another. Once in a while a box got stuck and I had to get it out of the machine. But they always kept on coming, day in, day out, never ending boxes. It was a quite uneventful monotonous job but it made me reflect on a lot of things.

This image represents the endless work circle. No matter how fast, precise or well we perform some tasks those tasks will keep on coming, in new shapes in new ways. However repetitive tasks will become automized and whether we like it or not we will have to rethink the word 'work' in the future.

What thoughts come to your mind when you see it? Would love to hear your thoughts!