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Do you want to know what the worst thing about being a GC is? Having to play nice. All the time. Having to maintain cordial relationships with third parties to whom you'd gladly slap round the face (metaphorically, of course) because you need to get the deal done. Having to support and uplift colleagues whose appointment cannot have been supported by any clear evidence of competence. Having to deal with the consequences of decisions by committees with which you have had no involvement, much less input. Sometimes, by committees you didn't even realise existed. And yet... I wouldn't want to do anything else. Because when you're in-house, you're part of a team. Part of a team in a way that you can never be when you're in private practice, working as a hired gun. And you're committed to a cause, one with which you must sympathise or you would never have taken the job in the first place. And you can see things through to the end, far beyond the point at which in private practice your engagement would have ceased. That's why I do it. There are times when I have to remind myself that's why, but that is why. Photo: 'Frustration' by Reuben Stanton via Flickr, CC-BY-NC 2.0

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