Offering constructive criticism to the social cripples in our midst since early 2005.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
"Working hard" alone does not translate to riches, yet so many people seem to think its so laudable. Bullshit Puritan ethic. Those idiots also hanged witches...

I watched my old man work on a golf course for the last 30 plus years. You think I didn't respect him because he didn't work "hard" in an office like some dumbass lawyer would describe it? He's retired early. I'm on a sucker train. I respect him more every day, and myself less and less...*

*Well, not lately, for reasons I can't divulge about my own scenario since it could out me...

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.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Kerry, a Democrat, previously declined to release the transcript, which was included in his Navy records. He gave the Navy permission to release the documents last month, the Globe reported.

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.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

Originally posted by sunnybunny
Bush's highest grade at Yale was an 88 in anthropology, history and philosophy.

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.

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
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.

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.

[notcasesensitive]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Kids change this too. I want my kids to see someone who gets up each day and works. My kids would need to work even if I had 5 million tomorrow. Seeing daddy start drinking at 9 AM each day isn't going to make for junior hitting the books and trying to make something of himself (while he buys lotto every week waiting for lightning to strike twice).




Of course this only applies to the ones I'm raising. the ones i have Ty raising wouldn't be hurt.

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.)

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.

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.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
(I just admitted that I agree with Hank.)

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

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally posted by notcasesensitive
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.)

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.

[Bad_Rich_Chic]

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

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!

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
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!

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.

[Replaced_Texan]

Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
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!

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.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
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.

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

[Shape Shifter]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Are you still hanging out with the guy who knocked over liquor bottles?

I doubt it. He talks funny.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
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.

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

[sebastian_dangerfield]

Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Are you still hanging out with the guy who knocked over liquor bottles?

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.