As I sat doing paperwork, I had the thought or rather the realization that I was not meant to be a lawyer in the way that I was thinking I would be.

当我坐在那工作时，觉得自己曾认为的方式未必会真的成为一名律师。

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It began in the summer of 1997. It was a Thursday night; I remember this because I was sitting on the floor of my apartment doing paperwork for my job as I watched Friends.

事情开始于1997年的夏天，一个星期四的晚上，我之所以记得，因为那一晚我在公寓的地板上做着文书工作，同时在看《老友记》。

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How much time do you spend responding to emails and IMs and social networks, making payments, doing paperwork, filing, sitting in meetings, driving, doing errands, and so on?

在一天中你在回复E-mail，QQ信息和SNS网站消息上花了多少时间，在缴费，文书工作，文件整理，会议准备，开车，帮人跑腿等差事上又费了多少时间？

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But if he had to protect and promote the peaks by doing paperwork, he would.

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When the man opened the door, he found the Neil Kane, 49, doing paperwork while he waited for the BMW to warm up before scraping the snow off it.

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Even as I was doing the paperwork, I had to dodge calls trying to offer me similar and even better rates.

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