Without Customers

Professions / jobs where there's no need to consider clients or customers

Theoretical physicist or mathematician

🔹 Studies the laws of the universe or abstract mathematical structures.
🔹 No "customer" – only truth, logic, and beauty.
🧠 Example: number theorist.

Philosopher

🔹 Reflects on existence, consciousness, and morality.
🔹 The result of the work may not serve anyone in a concrete way.
📚 Customer = thought itself.

Artist who creates solely for themselves

🔹 Paints, composes, or writes without an audience or market.
🎨 The work is entirely subjective and internal – no feedback, no patron.

Researcher in fundamental science

🔹 For example, a researcher in particle physics, genetics, or historical linguistics.
🔹 No customer, only a research question.
🔬 "Clientship" may appear decades later, if the results are ever applied.

Writer who never publishes

🔹 Writes for the drawer – exploring the landscapes of their own mind.
📖 No publisher, no audience, no expectations.

Hermit / self-sufficient individual

🔹 No employer, no customers, no market.
🌾 Work exists for the sake of living itself, not to serve others.