There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job

by Kikuko Tsumura

NCIS. The female special agent wasn’t the Mossad one, so I guessed it must be either the first or the second series. I’d only ever watched post-Mossad Officer NCIS,

Why would you skip the seasons with Kate and Ziva, I can’t fathom it lol, they’re the best!

What a wretched life I led! And yes, I knew. Of course I knew that there were innumerable things in this world incomparably much harder and more terrible than what I was going through right then. But just for that moment, I wanted permission to crank my unhappiness gauge to the max. I’d dial it back down, I promised to dial it back down right away. By the day after tomorrow at the latest.

I didn’t want to have any more feelings about my work than were strictly necessary. I was done with all that.

She reminds me of the protagonist from Convenience Store Woman, but the opposite. Like, in CSW the narrator was so passionate about her one job, but this woman is apathetic to all work. I kind of get where she’s coming from