For people whose job requires a daily visit to the seamy, dark, cruel side of life, how has your sense of humor changed?

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Laughter is the best medicine. " I once had a job that required me to answer a child abuse hotline. People who wanted to file an allegation would call in and I would take the information and process it for field investigation.

Most of the callers were in a highly emotional state which made them often incoherent. It was my job to ask a specific set of questions and any other questions that would help explain the allegation. The allegations ranged from no food in the house to the physical and sexual abuse of children.

The details were often horrific. As a result of this experience my sense of humor has become more acute. I try to surround myself with people who can laugh at life and at themselves.

I look for people who can appreciate a joke. It there is more than one way to take a remark, I consider it an attempt at humor until I find out otherwise. My friends will say I’m seldom without a smile on my face and laugh easily at any half-witted attempt at humor.

I’ve learned that humor for me is the best way to cope with life and the best way to retain my sanity. Sources: my life .

Great question! I think anyone whether through a job or simply through continued exposure to victimization, crime and terror is irrevocably changed by it. In my family humor is the best defense we have against the dark cruel realities we face daily.

Has it changed? Yes. We spend an enormous amount of time laughing about whomever is doing what they are, including his supposed physical characteristics, and methodology.It sounds sick, and in a way it is, but it is also extremely helpful in relieving the almost constant stress.

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Well since you ask I do run a on line business, but I am also a writer. I wrote alot HORROR when I was growing up but then switched gendre to HISTORICAL ROMANCE for a many years. Very profitable, but extremly boring.

I lalso did alot of free lance: articles, opinion pieces etc...........then about 15 years ago I decided to go back to what I know best HORROR I found its best to surround myself with the "tools" of my craft......most people including my mother won’t even walk into my office...its too "dark" I love gothic horror and all the things that go with it. It inspires me. What I write has nEVER affected my sense of humor.

I guess I am just generally funny. Its odd because I cannot write comedy...but I am very good with "one liners" this according to my friends. I always have a comment and its very funny..........but then again just as I can find "horror" in anything, I also seem to be able to find HUMOR in the same!.

I relax and tell job related humor only with people who've experienced the same experiences. Being involved in the law, I guess that qualifies me for what I learned in Sociology as being in a" boundary role" occupation. hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/htm As such, I've learned that I can only fully let down my hair and laugh about my experiences with others who have lived through the same experience with me.

I'm sure that this is the same thing for surgeons and grave diggers as well as lawyers. I noticed in law school that part of the acculturation process pushed toward what I call "lawyer humor. " From what I can tell, it has multiple elements: It must be witty verbally.It involves knowledge that only other legally trained people or support people would have.

It generally involves someone making an ass of himself or herself. About fifteen years later, I noticed that as I worked my way into middle age, that the jokes didn't seem quite as funny as before, because they were cruel. I guess that dealing with clients over time, they had lost their abstract qualities as plaintiffs or defendants and instead had become real people with real names, lives, families and good and bad traits.

Once you reach that stage of reentry into humanity, legal humor doesn't seem quite as funny as it used to be. Around my professional brothers and sisters, I still tell and listen to lawyer humor, but with a lesening enthusiasm as I've slowly, but surely, overcome the legal socialization process. I suspect that this probably just a function of normalcy reasserting itself and the socialization process wearing off.

I suspect that this happens in any profession. Once the outsiders lose their "otherness" and you start seeing them as real live people, it is hard to maintain the cold, analytical, arrogant posture that law professors try so hard to instill in their charges. Sources: personal observation Snow_Leopard's Recommendations Disorder In The Court!

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So many people have no or very little humor these days,lighten up people.

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I try to find the humor in just about everything....

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.