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s0nicfan posted...

To be fair, I think you're missing a lot of moments where Jim expresses his disappointment. There are at least a handful of occasions spread out across multiple Seasons where he has this realization that he might be stuck at that job for life and you can see his expression fall flat. There was the time the intern was like a young Jim, the time that his old high school friend kept taunting him for basically being a failure, and a bunch of times during the Michael Scott manager co-manager stuff.

Oh he definitely always hates his job, don't get me wrong

I'm just saying they portray him as way differently oriented before the last season. Like when he plays golf and keeps trying to get that dude to buy paper from him for example. You never see Pam do anything like that in her receptionist job -- except arguably when she figured out the copier and quits immediately

I don't even like Pam but she has a passion that Jim doesn't until it's narratively convenient. Like Kevin is generally shown as a bigger sports fan than Jim due to his gambling addiction

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