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Ask Polly: I Hate My Job and Feel Like a Fraud. What Should I Do?

3 pointsby vkbover 10 years ago

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dreamweaponover 10 years ago
<i>I love going to court and showing off, but that&#x27;s the only thing I love, and it doesn&#x27;t happen all that often. I like people, and talking and attention, and not sitting at my desk doing boring shit. ... People are fooled every day into thinking I&#x27;m working hard, but I&#x27;m not. I&#x27;m phoning it in. I usually get pretty good results, and I am super-good at faking my way through. I win, for the most part (more than half the time, which is a pretty good average). But I really don&#x27;t care all that much. I just can&#x27;t get it up for this job, and this job requires a giant, ever-lasting boner — for details, for being correct, for rules and regulations and other people&#x27;s shitty problems.</i><p><i>When I think about what I want to do, it&#x27;s all &quot;have a nice vegetable garden and make muffins and ride my bike and throw parties and have babies&quot; ...I&#x27;m passionate about things, but not career things. Family things, book things, living-the-good-life things. I like to hike, I like my friends. I like vacations. I like restaurants and barbecuing wild-caught salmon while drinking dry rosé.</i><p>Such profound honesty. I&#x27;m touched, quite frankly. No really I am. I&#x27;m sure most of us overlap at least 50% (or have at some point in our careers), we just don&#x27;t have the courage to admit it, even to ourselves.
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