The overseer's order
For the jobs you'd rather not do
Here Am IWho answers when the chores call?
In ancient Egypt, small figures called shabtis were placed in tombs to answer "Here am I" whenever their owner was called to work. List the jobs that keep coming round in your life, and see which ones could get a figure of their own - a helper, a machine, or simply nobody - and which you would rather keep.
Try a sample:
1 The roll free
One job per row: what it is, how often it comes round, about how many minutes each time, and a role if you already know it.
2 The shabti box free
3 Call the roll
One run gives every "not sure" job a role, keeps every role you set, adds one first move per job, reads the whole roll, and writes the overseer's order: the job to start with. The page re-checks the reply against your rows.
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How the roll-call works
Hours a year are times a year multiplied by minutes, rounded to a whole hour (never below 1). A job comes round 365 times a year every day, 260 every weekday, 156 at 3 times a week, 52 weekly, 26 every 2 weeks, 12 monthly and 4 at 4 times a year. Every call-up of a job that leaves you needs a worker, up to 365, and every ten workers need an overseer - a full set of shabtis was 365 workers and 36 overseers.
The roles borrow three kinds of work: Building (making progress on your own aims), Recovery (rest, play and people) and Maintenance (the upkeep that keeps life running). Building and Recovery stay yours; Maintenance goes to a machine when it repeats the same steps on paper or a screen, to a helper otherwise, and stops altogether when nobody needs its result. A role you set is never changed.
The reading follows a fixed order: every job kept, then no job kept, then half or more of your hours leaving you. A bill is only ever automated or kept, never dropped. This is a playful planning tool, not financial, legal or professional advice.