Best job in the world by Ann Evans
Me doing research on army sniffer dogs. While on a school visit recently when I’d been telling the class about the writing activities I get up to, one young lad asked me, "Don't you ever get bored with writing?" After a moment’s thought I answered him truthfully, that no, I don’t get bored. Tired yes and there have been times when I’ve fallen asleep at my keyboard and woken to find my head lolling attractively(!) on my chest and a load of zzzzzzzzs on my screen. At times like that I’ve thanked my lucky stars that my fingers hadn’t rested on the delete button as I nodded off. But bored – not a chance. I went on to tell the boy who’d asked the question, that if I find that I’m writing something boring, then I need to stop and make changes, because if its boring for me to write it, the reader is certainly going to be bored reading it. However, his question made me realise just how fortunate I am to be doing a job that I love and which I think of as a pleasure r...