you think you're working hard until you see what hard looks like and then you're like

fuck I wasn't even working nearly as hard but I see that is encouraging because it means

that so many people have so much under-utilized potential because they just haven't

even learned how to work. I remember when I did my I did a legal

internship in France so I had to do translating legal documents from French to English

and I was because I thought because people were like you're good at writing you're

persuasive you should be a lawyer and I was like sure I'll try that so I went to it was a

company called Arkema and I did my summer internship there my junior year and there

was this partner at the basically the it was corporate law but it was equivalent of a partner who was there and she walked by my office and she like I think she might have talked to me one other time like just to like welcome me to the office and this was the only other time she ever spoke to me.

And so she she like did one of these like peaked her head into my hole where they kept me to like translate documents and she was like, you know, how's it coming or whatever?

And I was like, I was like, man, I was like I'm just working really hard on this and just trying to,

it was like, I'm just working really hard.

And she just looked at me and she just laughed and I was like what the what and she was like you don't even know how to work and I just remember

thinking that and then and then she just walked away. And I went to the guy who was like two years above me. I was like I was basically trying you know you'd get his job as like the lowest level I was like his peon, right?

And I was like, what the fuck?

And he's like, yeah, they work so many more hours than we do and have so much higher stakes than we do.

He's like you're just translating documents.

Like, if you get something wrong, it's on them, not on you.

And I remember thinking about that because like, thought I was working really hard but they had to go review everything to make sure I didn't mess up and especially in a job like law where you usually have billable hours, like you literally in order to get paid you have to spend time.

This is so clearly connected that those people just kill themselves in terms of the amount of work that they put out.

And now that I'm at my position now, I 100% agree.

Like I didn't know how to work.

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