I need to add another recently discovered Axiom of work
The newly compiled list is below, with the newest rule being number 6.:
The Axioms of work:
1. Before starting to work, one must first work
example: Before cutting the lawn one must air up the lawn mower tire, pick up debris in the lawn, grease a spindle, or brush off cat hair from the seat.
2. Work begat work (Work creates work)
Think of Newton's third law of relative motion...
example: Bob's gate repair also involved the movement of the sprinkler line, adjustment of the plant bed, and the movement of timbers.
3. Work never ceases, not even by death.
example: You paint the house. In time it needs touching up, then larger repairs, then finally a massive scraping-off redo which is many times the work of the initial job. One dies during the latter process and the next unfortunate homeowner needs to complete the job and therefore restarts the entire process.
4. There was always work and forever will be
Example: Genesis until today
5. Work will force one to work, and even create more work if one does not heed the call.
Example: No matter whether or not you wish to clean out the drain, it will remain in a state of needing work. If you do nothing, then it will cause the septic to clog and back up flooding your bathroom with putrid waste. Should you not heed the need to work at that point, next it will infect you with a fatal disease from the sewer mess and kill you. Therefore, work is entangled with life. Should work not be performed, then life will end, and if life ends work will cease. This is sometimes thought of as a separate rule of work but is actually an "entangled rule of work." It is also in contradiction with rule number three. This is unexplained at this time.
6. If you should purchase, borrow, or use some device that is designed to perform some manner of work, you will therefore be drawn into the act of work. Becoming part of this process may then bring into play, all the rules of work and further involve you.
