I get asked this
Dec. 20th, 2006 08:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dcEvery so often, someone will ask me if I don't want to go back to my old job, if I don't miss it. Leaving aside that that isn't an option anyway, since I simply don't have the physical stamina to even consider doing a fraction of what I used to (I can put in a lot of effort for a defined, limited period, as with a con or something like that: not as a continuing, open-ended commitment)...
Of course I miss it. On the one hand, it was a fascinating job, and on the other you got to help people directly, occasionally even saving their lives. Even if I could do it now, though, I wouldn't. Here is an account of some of the reasons why. I could see it was going that way fifteen years ago.
Of course I miss it. On the one hand, it was a fascinating job, and on the other you got to help people directly, occasionally even saving their lives. Even if I could do it now, though, I wouldn't. Here is an account of some of the reasons why. I could see it was going that way fifteen years ago.
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Date: 2006-12-20 09:34 am (UTC)Some of us just aren't up on the backstory! :)
((hug))
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Date: 2006-12-20 10:46 am (UTC)Thanks for the hug, although I don't especially need it WRT the old job: in a lot of ways, having been forced to quit it is the best thing that ever happened to me.
OTOH, right now I feel like I could do with all the hugs I can get. :oS
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Date: 2006-12-20 12:08 pm (UTC)*MAN HUG*!
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Date: 2006-12-20 12:30 pm (UTC)