Keith Boyea has some existentialist thoughts about his career as a bureaucrat:
I prefer to think of humans as courageous–In the face of absurdity and meaningless, we go on. It’s nuanced, I admit; the difference between scorn and courage may not even matter. But in my attempts to make my own life meaningful in the face of all this, I think courage is a far better place to start than scorn … If all our character is a lie, created to keep us from recognizing the circumstances of our existence, then we can choose our own course. We can choose to love, live, work, and play because those things matter to us. We need not be bound to scorn, or to roll the Sisyphean rock at all. We can altogether forget about the absurdity and live happy, well-adjusted lives. And what’s more courageous than that?
Inflicting random cruelty and laughing hysterically about it?
The Dish 