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_refugee_  ·  3644 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stop Saying "I Have A Boyfriend"

LOL. Oh, poor you.

I will give that there are ways to minimize the terrible-ness of certain situations. However, I think that some can't be avoided, if they do fall upon your shoulders. Like what if you are a manager and you have to fire someone? Even if they deserve to get fired - late on projects, dicking around at work, and so on...I still think that would make me feel like a terrible person. I fired someone! I said "You have the right to make money to support yourself, sure...BUT NOT HERE."

I think there are jobs where being "terrible" comes up more than others. like being a judge for instance. Imagine that every day you had to decide, "she's in the right, she's in the wrong" and base it NOT on your opinion of moral justice but on the letter of the law. I think that you would have to deal with feeling terrible there a lot more than you would if you were a kindergarten teacher. Or like, I don't know, a landscaper.