However must respectfully remind lady, whose many delights I have yet to enjoy, you do not have a normal job. If normal life desired, two lives necessary.
Originally Posted by Mr.Chan
If a normal life is desired, it's necessary to have only one life, and that one life needs to be conducted strictly within society's norms. Once you begin to lead multiple lives, and/or one or more of them involves behavior that society doesn't approve of, you run the risk of embarrassment (or worse) when your cover is blown.
bcg has mentioned in the past that, in a former lifetime, his occupation was the malpractice of law, an occupation that he threw in the shitcan about 20+ years ago and has since never looked back. But when he was engaged in active malpractice, a large part of his workday consisted in rendering assistance to people leading multiple lives, at least one of which transgressed the norms of "polite" society, whose problems arose because those lives began to intersect to the embarrassment of whoever was seeking my help.*
Or as I used to tell my clients: "The fact that you want me to help you now is proof that you've fucked your life up beyond my likely ability to help you."
Cheers,
bcg
* A problem that even effects lawyers. The most memorable event of my entire legal career was the day that the wife of another lawyer barged into our office and had a loud (
very loud) and quite public (i.e., in front of other lawyers, support staff, and clients) meltdown. Apparently, her daughter had separated from her (the daughter's) husband, and moved in with her mom and the other lawyer. In the space of about a week (as far as we could figure out from what we heard about the divorce trial months afterwards), the other lawyer in my office managed to get both his wife's daughter
and their live-in maid pregnant. But I digress...