Sounds like a perfect reason for a top ten list.The Top Ten Reasons they'll come up with as to why Jake’s not working that much:
10. Doing The Amazing Race: Java Edition. 
9. Wants to spend more time with funny sandwiches or sing about them. 
8. Gardens to hoe, people. Gardens to hoe!
7. Needs to earn more frequent flier miles to take the family on vacation.
6. Got an offer to write, produce and star in “Jakeyhood of The Traveling (Green) Pants”.
Hmmm… who could direct?
5. Wants to see how many more film festival stamps he can get than Austin in his handy dandy film festival notebook. 
4. Developing his own line of designer kale chips.
3. Trying to turning “summering” a year round thing.
2. Can’t get out of carpool anymore.
And the #1 reason Jake’s not working much
Need to do housekeeping before going out.