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Speaker 1: Tell you what. The irony was not lost on me

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Speaker 1: this week, as a couple of things job related happened.

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Speaker 1: One the survey that suggested over half of us regret

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Speaker 1: our career choice. That struck me as profoundly sad. Say

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Speaker 1: whenever you want about work and work life balance, but

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Speaker 1: a lot of ours are spent in a lifetime crafting.

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Speaker 1: Virtually everyone, at least at the start, has to work.

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Speaker 1: I mean everyone, of course should work because it's good

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Speaker 1: for you. But to have a lifetime of regret, to

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Speaker 1: have not really lived at all, or at least not

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Speaker 1: feel your full potential. Juxtaposing that was the surprise to

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Speaker 1: me anyway, that I'd been here at ZB for twenty

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Speaker 1: five years. A smaller surprise was on the same day,

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Speaker 1: April one, Irony Morning Report at Radio New Zealand was

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Speaker 1: marking fifty years. I spent a short stint at Morning

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Speaker 1: Report immoderately, although ultimately I think successful circumstances without word

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Speaker 1: of a lie, I have loved every day of every

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Speaker 1: week of every month, every year, not just at z B,

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Speaker 1: but the forty four years I've been in this game.

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Speaker 1: Of course, I've had bad days, had bad employers, i

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Speaker 1: had ropew Times have been sacked twice by morons. But

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Speaker 1: I never regretted picking what I do, which is a

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Speaker 1: small miracle given I've never really been able to tell

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Speaker 1: anyone with any clarity why I picked this game in

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Speaker 1: the first place, other than it seemed appealing. I had

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Speaker 1: no mentors or people I knew in the media. As

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Speaker 1: a kid, I listened to the radio, thought that sounds fun.

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Speaker 1: As it turns out, I was right other small saviors been.

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Speaker 1: In fact, not only didn't I regret it, it worked

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Speaker 1: out moderately well in terms of gainful employment, because at

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Speaker 1: no stage in the past four decades have I been

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Speaker 1: able to conjure up an alternative. I literally cannot think

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Speaker 1: of anything else I would want to do. I would

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Speaker 1: like to think, though, and this goes to the survey

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Speaker 1: that if it hadn't gone well or I did regret it,

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Speaker 1: I would have done something about it. Because life's big

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Speaker 1: lesson is life is short, and if you aren't rolling

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Speaker 1: with it, you're fighting it, and that's no fun and

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Speaker 1: it wears you out. For more from the mic Asking Breakfast,

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