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Originally posted by bilmore
I actually do really really like mine, and so maybe my advice wouldn't be as useful as advice coming from someone who didn't like theirs but who managed to convince themselves they did so as to feel better about getting up and going in.
But anyway, start making yourself aware of what else you COULD be doing, and how much you COULD be making. There are just a ton of really really shitty occupations out there, most paying less than what you're making. You get paid to sit around and produce intellectual results. You could be getting paid to hump your butt on a line, or sell insurance or blocks of cell time or futures contracts, or answer no-mind phonecalls, or supervise idiot wretches, or . . . lots of bad choices. All for less money, less self-esteem, less ability to think creatively, less freedom to surf or read or talk or whatever. All in all, this is one of the better professions. It's not all roses, but there's more roses than you'll find most other places. The grass is actually greener where you are right now.
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Bilmore,
When I graudated from college, I was offer a gig doing insurance work. I went to law school. The person who took the gig now makes over $200k and has oooodles of free time.
Intellectual nonsense is exactly that. Its all procedural gamesmanship played by a pack of tools.
You just think you're making more than everyone else because you've been institutionalized in this field. I assure you there are swarms of people doing less intellectually stimulating things like institutional sales, stock borkering, PI and regaulr old sales who lap your ass in salary and QOL.
If you take start viewing law as a business (i.e., start milking the market for referral fees and banking favors), you'll fins a whole slew of people who laugh at all of the intellectuals.
The richest cat I know has barely a high school degree.
Fuck this, I've said this shit before...
Take off the blinders...
SD
