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Originally posted by evenodds
We have boring jobs. I love mine because I actually help people make their dreams happen. It's not a big job, but it's mine. The day to day is boring as hell, but the impact on my clients is enormous. What could be cooler than that?!
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I love my job.
Yes, the day-to-day can be dull. I cannot think of a job where that is not the case. Even Michael Jordan had to go to practice every day, and Wesley Snipes has to remember lines and shoot and reshoot scenes ad infinitum, and Jennifer Connelly's highly compensated love slave (my preferred occupation last time I took one of those tests) needs to clean up a bit.
But there are times when it's thrilling as hell -- like when I stand up to address a room full of parties and witnesses and triers of fact, and a hush falls over the room, and I get to sum up the case I've been thinking about for the past year or three. And there are other times where it's deeply satisfying on an intellectual level, or on a personal level -- the latter being the sort of thing E/O is talking about.
I spent several years between college and law school knocking around San Francisco, tending bar, temping, and having enormous amounts of fun. Eventually, the shitty work aspect of that life got to me -- not so much the lack of money (though certainly the money I make now is a nice thing) as the fact that 8 hours a day I was doing something that bored me.
Maybe if I had a great artistic talent and the drive to capitalize on it those years would have been more satisfying for a longer time. But having seen the other side, a job that pays me scandalous money to think, to give advice, to work with smart and cool people, to avoid heavy lifting, and to have occasional moments of spotlight glory is a pretty damn nice thing.
I suppose that makes me a geek in SD's eyes, but if so, fuck him.
