Find out what the dream job is like on a Tuesday. A lot of dream jobs are mostly email.

Any job looks like its highlights from outside. The highlights are real and they represent about two per cent of the hours, while the rest is admin, waiting, repetition and sorting out other people’s mistakes. Whether you would enjoy a career depends almost entirely on whether you can stand its ordinary Tuesday. That is the part nobody describes and the part worth going to find out about.

Find one person doing the work you think you want and ask them to walk you through a normal day, hour by hour. Not their best day.