Being a bastard isn't applying to a job you have maybe gravitated to or been steered to by culture or those close to you.

Being a bastard is when you realize that your job does more harm than good to other people, is an utter cancer on public budgets, has a disturbingly large fraction of people who abuse their power on and off the job... and then choosing to continue on with it, to wrap your identity around it, and to try to defend the institution at the expense of everyone else in the country.