Series 01 Part 02: Hughes family correspondence, 3 April 1917-22 September 1918 - Page 240
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inclination to alter my choice of law as a profession. I believe that I will really like the work and honestly I think that I will welcome the quiet office life – this war has given us most of the excitement of an average lifetime crammed into a few years.
Perhaps engineering may seem to be my strongest point in some respects but I fancy that my mechanical genius is limited to purely practical work and high theory is far beyond me. I mean that I can sometimes make a thing go or modify it slightly to suit the particular purpose for which I am using it, but I could never go into calculations or designs to build anything in the way of an engine. And of course, as you said, there is nothing in engineering except as a government servant – and, believe me, I dont want any more government service after the war! From what I have seen of it everyone from the very bottom upwards has someone higher up "sitting on his tail" & even the man on the very top has the great & wonderful general public "sitting on his tail".
No I dont think I will have the slightest difficulty in settling down again when it is all over. As far as flying goes I will not in the least mind getting finished with it, because though I do enjoy it very much I will have had enough of it to satisfy all my inclinations in that direction, and will be quite content to rest on my laurels, such as they are. The one thing I most want now and am always looking forward to is to get back home with you all and settle down to normal life once more. All the glamour and