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Originally Posted by photon
I hate it already without having to intern, I never loved keeping track on numbers and rules and bureaucracy in the first place! 
But it is a fair point, it's definitely possible to have a job that at its core is something you enjoy but there's enough nonsense around the core that the dissatisfaction will outweigh the core enjoyable part. But that seems more like something that could be addressed by changing the situation rather than the entire career.
I guess that's the alternative.. if you aren't doing something you really enjoy, at least do something you're inherently good at so you can make a good living without having to always feel like you're expending your life every day.
Of course! I love going into lock stores, it's all so cool, and lots of tech overlap nowadays. |
The only part of my job that I enjoy is genuinely helping people. Helping them out of problems.
Its a big reason that I do not charge anyone for advice. Yes, it is taxing upon my time and mental well-being, but I think it is overall beneficial.
"I havent filed my taxes in a decade+ and nobody will help me!"
Yeah. I can fix that. Thats not even the worst thing I've seen this week. Nobody else is going to touch your file. Because they dont know how or just dont want to. I dont want to either. But someone has to help you and I guess its me. I learned tax accounting on the worst of the worst.
10 years? Child's play for me. I think the longest I've done is 22 years. For 2 people. So 22 years. Each. That was tough.
But fixing problems and fixing taxes? Thats what I do.
I'm on my 4th intern. They cant believe the stuff that I see and do and to them what I do looks effortless. It isnt. It takes a lot of effort, I just have age and experience.
Last year one of my interns got hired on by Deloitte and they ran into something they didnt know how to deal with.
He just says..."Call Locke, my old boss. He'll know what to do. Here's his number."
I get the call and..."Yeah, I know how to fix this, this is what you need to do..."
How do you know this? You didnt even take a breath or put us on hold to look it up!
I didn't have to. I just know it. Its what I do.
I think about that scene from X-Men where Professor X (James McAvoy) looks into Wolverine's mind and is like:
"I dont want your life!"
Yeah. Well. Thems the breaks son. How do you like eating or driving a car? Someone has to pay for that.
Trust me. Peter Gibbons had the right idea. Get outside and use your hands.
Like I always joke about, years ago my Doctor tells me:
"Sitting at a desk all day is bad for your health!"
Wow! Really? No F'ing kidding me! They teach you that in Medical school? I know that Nostradamus.
Its a living.