Do you define yourself in very large part by what you do for a living?
Sir Woke XR Re… 03 Mar 21 14:47
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Me: yes ofc

What on earth is there to be remembered by? “Oh he was nice to his family.” I mean I am, but any doss twot can be nice to his family.

No.    People that are proud of being commercial solicitors do my head in.  It is a career for reasonably well educated people who couldn't think of anything else to do

because it is generally the result of taking the line of least resistance rather than making the effort to carve out a properly interesting or meaningful career.  I don't think that is much to be proud of.

I don’t hate my job, but even if I did, that wouldn’t change the fact that we are defined by what we do for a living.

If you hate it, change it.

It is a career for reasonably well educated people who couldn't think of anything else to do

In fairness Laz has thought of (and to his credit in some cases actually done) lots of other things.

For me its 100% something I've drifted into and hence really not very much at all.

Yes my mistake, you've never repeatedly told the board that you hate law, and that it is an evil drain on your personal time and energy, and something recent and dramatic about it leaving you a husk of a man unable to devote all your energies to your family.
 

My mistake. Must have been someone else.

have you sustained a brain injury in the last few years?

Guy no offence m8 but your instinct and empathy for human nature fooking define “third rate” which is why you still live alone well into your forties. I do not fantasise about leaving my job and even if I did it wouldn’t mean I don’t define myself by it, WHICH FAOD IS NOT THE SAME THING AS LOVING IT ANYWAY.

Nope,  I live alone having lived with several partners,  over the course of many years, through choice.  It is not a case of “still” living alone and it says nothing about my instinct or empathy for human nature.

Probably somewhere above m8. fooked if I can be arsed to read back and check tho.

I love the way you guys think you know me tho. “Oh Laz oh Laz haven’t you quit your job?”. Er no, what of it.

My life is a constant tug of war between my job & having a life. I hate to think of myself as a lawyer first, and if asked I generally say I work in the professional services sector...

Truth is we all end up in the same place anyway whatever we do or don’t do for a living and those who remember us will probably remember us for the time we spent with them & how we made them feel rather than by what we did. Always try to be kind, whatever you do, etc.

I’m not religious really so as far as I know when I die everyone might think I’m a tosser & I’ll be none the wiser. Because we really don’t matter at all in the grand scheme of things. What matters is the here & now.