On the previous thread, people were talking about types of job, and Kondoing.
As mentioned about three threads ago, I'm an ex-teacher, but now work as a translator from home. So yes, another one! And you can add another language to the translating mix, as it's Japanese into English for me. Technical stuff, like how to grow semiconductor substrate, how to stop your bipedal robot from falling over as it walks up a slope, and so on. If that sounds hard, trust me that it is way easier than translating things like novels with all the cultural and social differences that they contain!
On Kondoing, and type of job. Thinking about it, maybe there is a connection with inherent disposition - type of job that you will find is right for you also has some kind of link with the type of disposition that also clicks with finding Marie Kondo's method something that works? Like being more introverted or introspective, or something? Vague, I know, but when you look at Amazon reviews of the book, there are some people who ridicule it. Maybe just a very different personality type?
All those who mentioned paperwork and living in various countries that seem to be enamoured of the stuff. We are in Germany, and have three of the Ikea
Flyt folder thingies filled with paperwork just for our apartment purchase alone! A few months back we had to have some work done on the pipes that drain our kitchen sink, and the invoice for the work done stated that you should keep it for ten years!!! (Are they insane? This is not going to happen!)
Documents concerning tax also have to be kept for ten years, and a few years back we actually got audited by the tax office here, and had to pull out lots of paper concerning stuff that was years earlier, so this we all keep (unhappily) for the whole ten years.
(As a specifically German thing, for anyone else who this may be useful to, as surely there must be people lurking as well as posting (?)). Items that you no longer need can be given to the Deutsches Rotes Kreuz). They give clothing and household articles to refugees who, at the moment are mostly coming from Syria. They are arriving with literally nothing, so essentially EVERYTHING is wanted, be it a a single plate or spoon or glass, colour pencils for children, a pair of socks, or underwear. The ladies in the place where I bring donations have essentially said, bring ANYTHING, it will be given to those who need it.
As stated way upthread, I actually started getting rid of stuff several months before reading the book, so definitely did not do it in the prescribed order, and am going back and revisiting areas. Little things like folding knickers in the way she described - am putting freshly used ones at the back of a stack, and taking from the front. l Like this, every now and then I end up putting something on which is massively uncomfortable, so I know that even though it looked OK when I went through it, it is not something I want to wear!
Who was it who mentioned Uniqlo earlier? Thank you! Have just bought some woolen cardigans for myself as a replacement for the ones I had been wearing and had hated.