*sigh*
 

I typically answer the "what do you do" question by saying "I'm a facilitator. I'm one of the 99% of lawyers who don't chase ambulances."

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My opinion, as always, is that these things are useless, as are personal trainers. However, many people seem to find them useful. Depending on what one is trying to accomplish, I think HRMs can limit people. The human body is much more capable of adapting and can take much more physical stress than most people think it can. Our limits go well beyond what our personal trainers and HRMs tell us.

Of course, if you're just using these things as a method for staying/getting in shape, then they probably serve a practical purpose. Hence, they're probably practical for most people, which makes my opinion practically irrelevant.

Personal trainers are like headhunters -- I can't find any real reason why they should exist.

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Whoa. This was inspired. Or inspiring. Or both.

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Never mind. I changed my mind. I'll take literature for $1000 Alex.
A study reports that the most "reread" books are Shakespeare and Harry Potter, among others. I have only read a couple of books more than once. I read The Great Gatsby 7 or 8 times before I loaned my book out to an inconsiderate asshole who lost it. He gave me an L. Ron Hubbard book to make up for the loss which I carried around for awhile but then never read it. I wonder what happened to that book because I don't have it anymore.

Anyway - most reread books...“The Color Purple” ranks among the fiction most commonly re-read. Others include the Harry Potter books, the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” and Shakespeare’s plays. Also cited by the committee: F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby,” Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Laura Ingalls Wilder’s “Little House on the Prairie,” Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” and A.A. Milne’s “Winnie the Pooh.” The ALA committee was composed of both librarians and editors with the trade publications Library Journal and Booklist.

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2.

I think Ty said he runs, right? Having a monitor telling you whether you need to slow or speed is too distracting. You push yourself, and have some sense of pace, what more do you need to know. On the other hand I know people who just whether they "push" based upon a target heartrate, so maybe they have some purpose.

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I have a tendency to shirk and try to fool myself that I'm not shirking. If I know what pace I'm at on non-shirky days, being able to see that I'm not even coming close to duplicating it tends to motivate me on shirky days.

I don't use a heart rate thing, though; I tend to use the "calories per minute" meter. I think it's totally inaccurate, but it measures in small enough units that I can track it.

If I had a heart rate monitor, I would probably use it for the same purpose -- to remind myself to keep above a certain level.

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OOhhh. OOohh. I know this one. I just got a snazzy one called the Polar 625X Running Computer (there is a bike gizmo sold separately, if that interests you...).

It tells you your pace, your "percent" heartrate, actual BPM, distance, amount of time exercising, etc.

Of course, the only thing I've figured out so far is how to set it for my heart rate and the time and date. It comes with a CD that you can download all your fitness information into the watch (needless to say, I'm nowhere near that level of complexity yet.)

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If only a personal trainer could get me in perfect shape as easily as my HH found me my "plum" job. Particularly if I didn't have to pay the PT myself, but rather could have, oh, I guess the people I fuck pay his fee.


Of course if I were to continue the metaphor I'd say something about how at this point it doesn't matter how great my body looks anymore, it is warm, and the people I fuck are insatiable, and won't leave me alone, and want to fuck me all the time, and call at odd hours just to see if I'm there, even if they don't want to fuck, and expect me to keep fucking after I have been fucking all day, all week, in fact, until late in the evening, and am much, much, too tired to fuck anymore and certainly too tired for it to be any good, and you know, maybe I wouldn't mind if you started seeing someone else, and god, I would really kill right now to be able to go to the office and bill some hours.

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Holy fucking Faulkner sentence!

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Careful what you get yourself into. Remember, firms typically require an exclusivity commitment for about a year before they pay the HH.

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The only people who can use headhunters are the people who don't need them.

"Superstar Top 10 Law Review BIGLAW experience only -- up to $250k" Fuck, the person that fits that bill can find a job by putting her thumb up her arse.

It's the borderline 1st-tier/2nd-tier non-law review dipshits like me that need help.

Fuckers.

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I hate to be even more boring today, but I have one tiny piece of advice: specialize. I know a lot about 2 or three very boring things (boring to most, not to me). I'm probably the least educated person on this board and I have no idea what law review is. But there are only about 4 people in NYC that can do my job because it's so specialized. So I get paid a lot from top firms.

Of course, there's the chance that the government could wipe out my specialty. Then I'd be fucked. So the other piece of advice is marry well as back-up.

That's my only piece of career-related advice that I will ever give on the board. the blowjob-related posts will continue tomorrow.

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the main role that headhunters fill at this point is knowing who is looking at a particular time in a particular market. if law firms would do a better job of advertising jobs on their websites and keeping job openings lists current, they'd save themselves a lot of money in headhunter fees.

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But the third tier and 4th tier are fine?

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I dispute this. And I don't even know anything about your education.