Brad, What are you talking about? If you lived in a forest all you would need is a stick. But cities make sewers necessary and necessary sewers make taxes necessary. Are you suffering the same disconnect around taxes as that teenager who complained about those liberal media? If you weren't so intelligent I wouldn't bother but there must be something I'm missing here. Could you enlighten me?
REH ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brad McCormick, Ed.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 5:50 PM Subject: Re: [Futurework] The world of work > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > All this emphasis on cleaning toilets would make Dr. Freud wonder about > > us. As for me, my version of very unpleasant jobs is making out my tax > > returns. My tax accountant cleans up my forms, scrubs like mad and is > > worth every penny I pay when she presents me with a clean, scrubbed form > > ready for my signature. > > [snip] > > Well, in psychanalytic jargon, addicted bean counters are > "anal retentive". > > But I think there is a difference between cleaning toilets > and making out tax returns: Toilets help us deal with a > natural problem (you wouldn't want to go back to where > people dumped their chamber pots out the window onto > the street, would you?). But our tax returns are > an unnecessary and wilful imposition on us, which, > unlike the progress in sanitation (one recent > improvement: toilets that use less than 1/2 the water of > the old ones), is getting worse. I think that deducting > one's medical expenses at the end of the year made a > lot more sense than trying to predict next year's > medical expenses before this year has > ended. Dealing with the tax forms don't feel better than > diarrhea or constipation, just a different nuance > of frustration. > > \brad mccormick > > -- > Let your light so shine before men, > that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16) > > Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21) > > <![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit my website ==> http://www.users.cloud9.net/~bradmcc/ > > _______________________________________________ > Futurework mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework _______________________________________________ Futurework mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://scribe.uwaterloo.ca/mailman/listinfo/futurework
