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Sep. 27th, 2005 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_elyanIt is quite strange that, dealing with accountants and the like, when I mention my future employment plans being up in the air, they tend to say in a hushed whisper "So you haven't got a job to go to?", in much the same voice you expect people to say "And then you inserted _what_ into the goat?"
To these people, the very idea of not working, and more generally not having absolute certainty about your life, is quite preposterous, you see.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a job, which earns me money. It is, coincidentally, part of a sort of career progression, somewhere along the line. What it isn't is some kind of sacred duty - there are plenty of jobs about which one could feel that way, but moving other people's money around and counting their beans isn't one of them.
It's not anything fundamentally important, you know. Not really.
To these people, the very idea of not working, and more generally not having absolute certainty about your life, is quite preposterous, you see.
As far as I'm concerned, it's a job, which earns me money. It is, coincidentally, part of a sort of career progression, somewhere along the line. What it isn't is some kind of sacred duty - there are plenty of jobs about which one could feel that way, but moving other people's money around and counting their beans isn't one of them.
It's not anything fundamentally important, you know. Not really.
