When I read about the lawyer working at the soup kitchen instead of spending another hour at his paying job, I keep thinking, 'how cute these choices are. There are so many lawyers already, and so many kitchens, the guy can hardly say he's on the front-line... he found a way to occupy an evening, less depressing than watching the news.'

Be careful of using revealed preference as a fully general counter-argument. It's possible, and probably common, for someone to really alieve that they are working towards and want to be working towards that goal but they just haven't thought through whether there is a better way to do it.