Writing Notes

More Advice from Sandy Alexander

You will soon get a job.  Most jobs are about tradeoffs: the radiologist gives up touching patients and gets a nicer schedule.  But a few jobs are so much better than others that they seem to leave the world of tradeoffs behind.  You should keep a list of those, both because you might want one and because it’s interesting.If you make a list and analyze it, you will observe that one category of too-good-to-be-true jobs involves government.  The two reasons for this phenomenon are that government has a compelling task and that its gargantuan structure overcomes entropy to concentrate opportunity in a few hand