My brother in law was a police officer until very recently.  He wanted to get out of the job because he has little children and he wanted a safer career while they were growing up, but the job he took — a desk job for a financial company — doesn’t seem to be his cup of tea.

The problem is that he was never very good with paperwork, yet his job now depends on it even more so than did being a police officer.  So even though the company he works for uses networked attached scanners to try to minimize the amount of paperwork people in his department have to deal with, he still has to handle more paperwork than he would like.

My brother in law is therefore looking for another job.  Although my husband supports his decision to go back into law enforcement or something similar, I think it’s a foolish move.  He has a great job right now, a professional career that is stable and will give him the opportunity for advancement if he will just apply himself a bit more.

Paperwork is a fact of life, and that’s all there is to it.  Document management software solutions offer a way to reduce the amount of time you spend on it, but there is no escaping the reality of paperwork in most industries.  Whether my brother in law works in the financial industry or in law enforcement, he is still going to have to deal with paperwork.

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