i understand why people say that on some level every office job is the same and it doesn't matter what or who you are doing paper work for it's always paper work. but i have mad beef with the spaceflight robot in the lobby because she tries to fucking trap me in conversations about lunar missions everytime i am late for work and i would say that is an experience unique to my particular type of paperwork
the other thing that is different to a normal office job is that once in a while an engineer will call me and say 'hello i have a legal question' and then when i say 'okay ask away' they will say something like 'we are going to blow up an asteroid' which is really more of a statement than a question. and then they will follow that up with 'can you send us the paperwork for that' as if that is something that has happened enough times in the history of humankind to have standardized paperwork. but otherwise it's mostly emails
