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A person's job consumes about a third of their life if they work 8 hours a day. I for one always wanted to feel that I was doing something that was a contribution to society, not a taking. I felt so fortunate to be granted the chance for my education and I wanted to give something back in exchange. Early on in my career I had the choice between two job offers. One was a high paying civil service job for the department of defense running the research library in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The other was a far humbler, lower paying job as a science librarian at a little college which had an outreach program for Native American students down in Durango, Colorado. I really agonized over the choice, but in the end I took the Durango job and never regretted having done so.
Its just a matter of where you heart is. There would have been nothing wrong with working for Los Alamos had I believed in its mission, but I am completely anti-war; so I would have been miserable there. Someone else who believed that Los Alamos was doing the right thing would have prospered and been happy.
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