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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Okay, so I have been in various parts of media, law firms, and lobbying over the past decades and am increasingly realizing that I have found an easy/fun path and making lots of money, but that my job, itself, feels like bullshit.  Feeling some regret about not actually building a business, or anything of value, and just being paid to be a spin master.  Does anyone else feel this way?? I am so good at it, and it is just - bullshit.  Maybe this is a midlife crisis, I am funding my kids lifves and they are on purpose driven career paths.... should I just be grateful for the paycheck?[/quote]

I’m so curious about people like OP.  I had a similar conversation with someone else who works at a big law firm… didn’t you know all of this going into it?  Didn’t you choose this job knowing essentially that it was lucrative bullshit?  My friend’s answer was very passive, that he just took one step after another without realizing where he would end up.[/quote]

DH is a lobbyist (and a pretty big one, basically the top one in his industry) and he’s the first one to say lobbying - and all politics, including Ds and Rs - are bullshit. So kinda surprised OP is figuring this out now??

He loves to say that it’s all a game and if you’re really, irrationally upset about something political it’s because some group or some person is spending $ to make you think / feel that way (public affairs campaigns, bot farms, special interest groups, etc).

I get a hoot reading the political forum on DCUM because like clockwork it’s all of the Dem and Rep talking points circulated with insiders ~24-48 hours before it shows up here after it’s been disseminated by social media and the press.  [/quote]

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