Mid Week At Work: Lex Anteinternet: Movies In History: Wind River. Thinking about work.

What, this again?

Lex Anteinternet: Movies In History: Wind River: I often dread watching modern movies set in Wyoming (I tend to give the older ones a pass) as they get things so wrong.  And, of course, as...

Yep.

And in the Mid Week At Work series?

Yes again.

A good movie should leave you thinking about it.  Indeed, that's one reason that I hate movies that are vapid crap, like Grownups, or anything with Chevy Chase or Adam Sandler in it.  Indeed, I hope those movies are listed, in the future, as lost movies like so many of the early silent films are now listed. And really lost.  As in. . . lost.

But good movies leave you pondering things.  Fantastic movies, like Dunkirk or Lawrence Of Arabia, leave you thinking about things or awhile, even if the only thing you may be left with is "wow. . . I haven't done much. . . "

Wind River does leave you thinking about things.

And one of the things it left me thinking about, although its very hard to define it, is the nature or regional work, and jobs that, in some ways, travel through time, even if some of those jobs that hang on are less prominent than they once were.

Now, to be fair, I occupy one of those jobs that has seemingly existed forever.  There were lawyers, as we well know, in the ancient world.  There are accounts of lawyers in ancient Rome. And the New Testament makes it plain that there were those who closely argued the meaning of the Mosaic Law in the ancient Israel.  We'll probably always have lawyers with us, although I do worry about the future in of the occupation to a great degree.  Indeed, I fit into a collection of lawyers that see industry consolidation as rapidly eroding the local lawyer as an institution and we generally feel that as this occurs

But there's something to those enduring occupations that reach back in time. For some reason, they seem to have more value, which is why they are so often the focus of films.  Ranchers, farmers, warriors of various types.  People from one generation  to the next move out of those occupations quite frequently, that is they do not pass from father to son. And they occur in decreasing frequency in general in some instances.  But in our minds they stay.  There's something elemental about them.

We're going to be looking at work with value here soon in a new post, once I'm able to define it, which isn't an easy concept to define.