Wednesday, September 07, 2005

wasted

i was hired to support three lawyers. to date, i've really only done work for two of them. i went to the third one's house today, just to install some files onto her computer. i had never really gotten the opportunity to chat with her before and so the only thing i had ever heard about her was what other people told me - and not all the things said were good. she said something very interesting to me today. she had asked me earlier what the reason i was leaving was and i told her that, basically, i needed a different working environment. i didn't bother getting into how much i didn't enjoy some of the work i did or any of that. a bit later on in our conversation, she said off-handedly that the reason why she never called on me to do any work for her was that the only work she needed done in her home office was her filing. she said that she felt it would be insulting to me, with all my education and how hard i've worked to get it, to ask me to do work that any 12 year old could do. whether she meant it or whether she just said it to make herself look good, i appreciate that she said it. at least someone recognizes that the job they've hired me to do is not one that requires someone that has a similar education as me. i think i can leave my job as i know it with a clear conscience.

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