Got called into jury duty ~15 years ago. Judge asked all of us our names and a few questions about ourselves. I told her I worked in “fantasy sports”, gave it a one-sentence explanation. Puzzled, she asked, dismissively, “anyone ever heard of that?” A few people behind me raised their hands. Then she said something else dismissive, along the lines, of “that’s an awfully strange thing for people to be doing.” I said, “well, at least people come to my (virtual) place of work *voluntarily*.

Vaguely remember getting a chuckle out of my fellow prospective jurors, but maybe I’m just mis-remembering that because I thought it was funny.

Was reminded of that today when hearing about how laid off federal workers will need to find new jobs. I thought, yeah, hopefully ones for which people *voluntarily* pay them.

Of course, I got out of actually *serving* on the jury, very easy, having gone to law school and knowing how to get the prosecutor to get rid of you via peremptory challenge.