14th August, 2009 - 9 to 5 - The New Rock and Roll

I kinda like my job. I am quite well-suited I fear for the life of the 9 to 5 lawyer. I like to think that I am a rebel, and would do well in a life on the open road – in the circus maybe. But actually, I think I am suited to the suited life.

It is odd, but I class myself as fairly lucky. My other great love is the theatre, and I sometimes have a little pipe dream about leaving the law and going full time into shows. However I was talking to one of my mates about this the other day. He jacked in his day job and re-trained. He’s now a highly successful theatre technician. And the odd thing is that he’s hankering after a bit of stability – he’s fed up touring around and working unsociable hours. In fact – he worked for about 18 months there on a big hit show, and the funny thing is that he got bored of it. If you think about it, theatre is largely about doing exactly the same thing for a couple of hours night after night after night. That’s Ok in the amateur world where I work – it’s a good hobby and a break from the day job – but I imagine it must get pretty dreary.

If I compare that to my day job, where you never know who’s going to walk in the door, and where you deal every day with life in all its multi-coloured splendour, I actually count myself pretty lucky.