With one additional important difference: If you touch an actual beautiful thing with diseased hands, you can infect the thing. With this character, you could make pretty much infinite copies by writing, re-writing, and re-creating when things don’t come out right. Could be worth a try :-)

I read your posts. I’m just not good at answering questions like that because I’m always worried I’ll offend the person.

The rest of your post sounds pretty much like the way corporations are :) I feel the same a lot… so I guess I’m lucky in the sense that we change that we do every 2 weeks so I don’t get too much of a chance to get stuck doing things I dislike for long periods of time.

Also, yeah, intern work typically doesn’t get much use. I did a huge project as one of my first tasks at my internship at Viz in Pittsburgh. It took me like 3 days. As far as I know, no one has even looked at the result, much less used it. Oh well.

I think that’s true for a lot of people — me too, in particular. In all my time in grad school, I seem to be happiest when I have exactly two things to work on. Any more and I feel like I’m drowning in undoable work; any fewer and I get bored or upset when the one thing’s not working, and then I start to ignore it.