ep: I just thought of something.
aaw: Okay.
ep: We use personal time like you were talking about money.
aaw: How's that?
ep: I can trade my P-time to somebody, or they can trade it to me. And we do that sometimes. So I might work longer, and then take longer, 'specially during an asteroid or meteor shower. I really like those. I like to get a little time off and go watch 'em. Y'see, that's all real easy. That's all real, uh--everybody understands or something. Eddie, he likes to go watch the solar flares. So sometimes when we know there's a big flare coming, I'll just work a couple extra days and let him take some of my P-time. Then he'll go up to the observatory and watch for a couple o' days, 'cause he really digs that.
aaw: Who's Eddie?
ep: Eddie's one o' the guys that work for me.
aaw: How old do you get to be in this life?
ep: About a hundred and fiftyish or so. Depends on how many rads you take.
aaw: A hundred and fifty years?
ep: Um-hmm.
aaw: But you don't have to work all those years.
ep: Why wouldn't you?
aaw: I mean, at something like driving a--.
ep: Have to? I don't understand have to--.
aaw: Oh well, okay.
ep: Why wouldn't you? It's what you do, you're--don't you stay interested in things?
aaw: Okay. How long would you work at what you're doing?
ep: Till I got bored with it.
aaw: And then?
ep: I would go do something else. Whatever I could do, whatever I wanted to do.
aaw: Do they have constant training programs? If you wanted to go do something that you hadn't done before--?
ep: Well, Eddie--eventually he's gonna want to go up and be in the observatory all the time, so pretty soon, maybe another five, ten years, he'll quit diggin' and he'll go be in the observatory. And he'll do that until he gets sick of it and moves on to somethin' else.