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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
A job she has continued doing through her 70s and 80s, long after most people retire.
The material she reads is confidential, so she is not allowed to share it with her secretary, her husband, or anyone else.
Presumably you don't get out to many official or ceremonial events. I saw plenty when I was a reporter, and presiding over them is way harder than most people think. Being pleasant and dignified and greeting dozens of people a day, every day, week after week after month after year. Sitting attentively through interminable speeches and ceremonies. Formal meals among strangers many times a week. Never getting impatient. Never looking bored. Never saying anything the least bit insensitive or controversial. Never losing your cool. From what I've seen, it's the toughest part of being a civic representative. Most people couldn't hack even being a city councillor for a week.
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Again, it's nothing personal against her. But why does the person doing that job have to be born into it? Who is anyone or family to be placed on such a pedestal. If the system didn't already exist like that, would you invent it?