Huh?
 

My college summer job put me next to the kids of millionaires. They were one fucked up group. The concept of doing things for money was foreign to them.

I hope my kids find a way to dodge the grind, but shit, they have to be ready to do something.

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the Dumbest of them all?
 

Kerry should have released this info during the elections. It would have made him more popular. Sad but, I think, true.

Remember when Bush I went after Dukakis for being an "elite Harvard intellectual?" You had to wonder when Yale became a community college.

Mirror Mirror on the wall, who's the Dumbest of them all?
 

Wait - is that one class?

BR(and, Sebby - 2. I've often wondered, given that the "invisible lawyer friends" seem rather fun, if I'm too harsh in my view of lawyers as a group that, in general, is under a mass delusion that they are intelligent, intellectual and interesting, but when I look at the people I've met through the Greedies, and then at the people I know from law school, the office and across the table, I admit some amazement at the difference)C


It must be our spirit.

Huh?
 

I have a friend who has never worked. happier than a pig in slop. grounded, centered, truly enjoying life.

I have another friend who can afford not to work, but does out of some misguided guilt or Puritan work ethic. He takes anti-depressants and hates his job. Works weekends and is miserable.

Huh?
 

same applies with pets. I certainly don't want to set a bad example for my cat. I'm expecting some support from him when I'm older, ya know.

(I was actually going to make a similar point to yours yesterday when it became apparent to me that all the people with kids had higher numbers than my baseline quit the job tomorrow number. good example and/or extra mouths to feed.)

(I just admitted that I agree with Hank.)

Huh?
 

I have a friend who can afford not to work and live rather well. But, he enjoys running his company. He gets a thrill out of it, and I don't begrudge him that.

BRC, lawyers are not a high population of my social group. There are a few, but we never talk about what we do.

Huh?
 

Are you the one that's probably a guy and posts news stories, or are you the pretty one?

Huh?
 

Yeh, I've got to begrudgingly agree with him on this one, too. But then, Hank actually found a relevant Gilligan today, so it's a good day for him all around.

Huh?
 

Mine either, and neither do we. I'm still in regular contact with exactly one LS friend, and two pre-LS friends with whom I'm still in contact are now lawyers. I've also met a few people through work whom I like socially.

Only two of these people (other than me) are still in private practice (one part time - the rest of the time she's a psychotherapist). Both are women, and both, like me, are effectively their families' sole earner - golden handcuffs, baby!

Huh?
 

Have you read all the articles about how so many women are the bread winners these days? They say it stems from the fact that so many men just aren't shooting the lights out scholastically in college, and consequently can't get high powered corp positions. I buy it. In every couple we go out with regularly, the husband, even when he's the bread winner, is a fuck up of sorts, and the woman has her shit together. Or maybe its just my social group.

Huh?
 

I'm the sole earner in my family, but it's not as if I could put the dogs to work.

I get "wow, you're a lawyer? you don't look like a lawyer" a lot. I take it as a compliment.

Huh?
 

Are you still hanging out with the guy who knocked over liquor bottles?

Huh?
 

I doubt it. He talks funny.

Huh?
 

when I first meet a new client they often think I'm there to pawn my watch.

Huh?
 

Actually, he's done incredibly well on Wall St. He could retire a few times over.

But I still wouldn't want to be him. Showed up a a meeting with an analyst friend of mine and all he talked about the whole time was some online game he plays incessantly. All the money in the world, and the jackass stays up all night playing Doom or Everquest or some shit like that.