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August 10, 2005

Boring jobs in a Cabinet Ministry?

Megan McArdle at Instapundit links to a Washington Post story that declares that even "high-ranking" jobs are boring. A deputy assistant in some cabinet ministry tells the Post:

You may be in a gilded cage, but if you're just forced to sit there for eight hours all day long, staring at the wall, it can be excruciating.

To which Megan adds:

Even my friends who live and breathe finance [i.e. Wall Street jobs] find a large portion of their work intensely boring. They are doing it because they hope that if they spend long enough proofreading powerpoint presentations and scrutinising IPO prospectuses, they will one day be paid really gargantuan sums of money to fly all over the world and tell CEOs how to finance their companies. ....

There is a tendency among liberal arts types to think that it is grossly unfair that investment bankers make so much money, when said artsy types' clearly more socially valuable work is so pitifully remunerated. Having spent a summer doing [finance], I personally think that anyone who is willing to spend his Saturday night going over the fine print in an SEC prospectus until 2AM is welcome to all the filthy lucre they will pay him. I chose to become a journalist because I've only got forty or fifty years left on this planet.... It seems downright piggy for those of us with ... "English Major Jobs" to demand both fulfilling work and lavish remuneration.

This is consolation for me when all the Wall Street types here at Columbia start getting offers in a few months that pay $20-$50K more than I'll get. At least my job isn't as boring as working on The Street.

Posted by adrianjo at August 10, 2005 02:31 PM

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