This one is a little more editorial than some of the other pages, (which are closer to being lists of links) but it’s a complicated topic which needs some introduction.
I think about this topic a lot, as someone who always has more projects going than he can finish, and because I really hate this (capitalist) idea that people are inherently lazy and won’t work unless compelled to with the threat of poverty, starvation, homelessness etc.
The page outlines ways work might change (including problems with modern work and unnecessary work), new categories of work, and ways to sift solarpunk callings from modern day examples.
I hope it’ll be useful to you - it’s very much a work in progress (as all the wiki pages are) so feel free to send me any additions/modifications you’d like to see.
Thank you! That’s a really good example and I’d be happy to add an entry to the list for this work!
I’d actually meant to include volunteer tour guides, such as in ship museums. I was thinking of WW2-era battleships and submarines I’ve been able to visit at local events but it sounds like you were working on even older vessels? One of the guides told me about their maintenance crews and it really did sound like a cool experience though I live a bit too far away.
I’ll add an entry for both, feel free to send links to any organization you’d like included or I can point it to this comment.
The place that comes first to mind is https://sdmaritime.org/ They have a range of ships from 1860s-modern, including some replica sailing ships. They have volunteer docents, guides, and maintenance, and I suspect this is a common structure for museums with large structures to maintain (so: marine, train, aircraft, architecture). They have/had paid historical re-enactors, although one can imagine that being work-for-fun in a post-scarcity world. The maintenance work can be physically demanding, so tends toward younger people, where the docents tended to be older. I’d say, when I was there, that the maintenance crew averaged around 45 years old, where the docents were more like 65.
My experiences there showed me that there’s a whole subculture of people who hang around marinas hoping to crew on boat races for little more than the party at the finish line.