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"They call it dead reckoning. Estimating where you're going from where you were. You know where you're supposed to be but the further you get from where you left, the more unsure you are. There isn't much you can do but accept that your only certainty is certainty. My life, these days, is in dead reckoning. No real discovery, no land in sight. I wonder if I'll be able to determine my position before sinking."

Q: "What skills do you need to work in a bookstore? What kind of person would be a good fit?"

A: "Someone who doesn't expect the value of their labor to be directly equivalent to their wages, with disciplined face muscles they can control as necessary, who's pretty sociable and who can organize things day in and day out with no end."

Can be applied to majority of specialized and non-specialized jobs and it hurtsss