Perqs of the job

Like everyone else, I find certain aspects of my work unpleasant. Being thrown in the middle of cases, with no background, briefing, and in some cases, no physical file to refer to, is one of them. The Great Man knows (or thinks he knows) what's going on in the case and I'm supposed to pick up all of this knowledge by osmosis and push things through to success. What can I say, I do the best I can.

But there are some advantages. For instance, I can blog before work, or in proximity to my lunchtime, and no one cares. I could probably blog during working hours more than I do, but I do like to try and get my work done during the time I'm in the office.

This afternoon, after sitting through another depo in a case that twenty-four hours ago I hadn't a clue even existed, and which I still am really sketchy about the facts, I got to eat lunch with The Great Man at an exclusive business club on the top floor of the tallest building in Knoxville. All the rich and powerful folks hobnob at the club, including the mayor (who was at the next table) and several attorneys adverse to me in cases I am handling. Good food, too.

The Great Man invited me to take The Wife and maybe some friends up to his mountain cabin in North Carolina some weekend. He even said we could bring the doggies. Maybe when The Wife's current class is done we can take a weekend getaway. Now that there is a lawn service taking care of cutting the grass, I need not feel too guilty about leaving the lawn unattended for several days.

And finally, The Great Man and Son-Of-The-Great-Man have a side business selling fractional ownership in private jets. They keep a pilot on staff and they have three physical airplanes in their possession for demonstration and sales purposes. So it now looks like I will have a private flight from Knoxville to Lake Charles, Louisiana in a couple weeks -- so rather than spending all kinds of time at the airport, I'll be sitting in the co-pilot's seat of a private plane going directly where I need to go, and returning directly home, as soon as I am done. That's a pretty sweet deal, folks.

So, maybe the health insurance sucks and there's no dental plan, but there are some perks. I suppose I should take advantage of them.