My Life, As Told Between (Baby Cakes') Naps

Making Widgets

15th June 2006

Making Widgets

posted in Lawyering and the Like |

I was talking to one of my best friends recently about our respective jobs.  I’m a lawyer.  She does marketing for a high profile company.  We both work crazy hours.  We make a good living.  We’re doing what women before us fought for.  We’re treated as equals to men (for the most part).  We should be happy.

Instead, we’d like to make widgets.  There’s something satisfying about having a finished physical product and knowing when a task is complete, in seeing the tangible connection between your efforts and the end results.  We both realized we missed that in our jobs.  There’s a sense of incompletion when tasks merely lead to more tasks.  When paper begets more paper. 

Then again, I’m sure if I was making widgets, I’d fine something to complain about then too!  =)  

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  1. 1 On June 15th, 2006, HBo said:

    I essentially make widgets, and although I think I would prefer what I’m doing to pushing around a paper trail, I still get very bored, and find countless excuses throughout the day to blog, read blogs, email, or catch up on the news. I think I may be the result of a society becoming ADD.

    posted on June 15th, 2006 at 4:59 pm

  2. 2 On June 16th, 2006, smm said:

    I spend most of my time making eejits – that is Irish/Pittsburghese for idiots…Either I’m making them idiots of I am unable to change their status by the time they come down the educational assembly line. I’m not certain. Either way, laying floor might be somewhat more satisfying. 😉

    posted on June 16th, 2006 at 2:05 pm

  3. 3 On June 16th, 2006, Melody said:

    Love your new look of your blog– very pretty! Creativity must come easy when you take so many naps! ha ha.

    posted on June 16th, 2006 at 3:32 pm

  4. 4 On June 18th, 2006, Y. said:

    Thanks much Melody! I think I’ve been throwing everyone off kilter with the constant changes to the blog. =)

    posted on June 18th, 2006 at 9:07 pm