work #1

I love my job. Every morning when I come into work I make myself a cup of hot chocolate and then settle down into my seat to scan through newspapers and news websites for the lastest in aviation news (I work for a law firm that specialises in aviation law). From the BBC to The Guardian to the Telegraph to Financial Times to insurance newspapers, my duty is to sift through them all and compile articles on airlines/airplane crashes for the daily bulletin for the lawyers who are too busy to go through the papers themselves. Thus, I am their conduit of information....I compile the bulletin, send it to the general office to be distributed, mass-email the lawyers and then upload it to the intranet. The rest of my time at the legal library is spent doing more 'traditional' library tasks like dealing with journals, checking in/out books, looseleafing and occasionally dealing with inquiries.

Recently a friend remarked that my job is pretty "grim", which I suppose it is because I'm always scouring for articles on airplane crashes (on slow days when there are no air crashes, I actually feel a slight hinge of disappointment.) But by default I get to keep up to date with current affairs, so I feel like I'm constantly learning (on some occasions I may even find an article or two in the Financial Times interesting, which is quite disturbing).