So I have to agree with G. here – this guy is scary. I warn you to click the link only if you have a particularly strong stomach for carping whiny sorts who think the world owes them everything they wanted on a silver platter and are plenty pissed they didn’t get it. I, personally, don’t so much, and so had to give up after the first few (incredibly long) diatribes. But the three or four I read were enough to make me want to write very nasty things in his comments – since I think that’s pretty mean and uncalled-for, I’m just going to write them here J well, not mean things, so much as – wow. I am torn between feeling sorry for this guy and wanting to drum him out of the profession asap. I mean, I completely understand how it feels to not get everything you wanted the first minute you walked out of law school -- even after being on law review at a well-respected regional school and graduating in the top (ok, I'm getting carried away -- you don't need to know all that!) -- anyway, doing fairly well in law school, I went on about twenty interviews at BigLaw and got - not one job (as anyone who's slogged through the archives is well aware). I know it's frustrating and demoralizing and it hurts! And while I was so confused and angry that I didn't have an actual paycheck or pretty business card at graduation like the rest of the ed. board, when I sat down to take stock, I found that, while some of my failure to be employed was the result of the bad market and a glut of new attorneys, some of it was certainly due things *I* was doing -- not interviewing well, not researching firms properly, etc. And I think this is what that guy's missing -- that if you feel "betrayed" by the fact that the mere possession of a law degree did not garner you a six-figure paycheck immediately on graduation, particularly when graduating from a school who staffs some of the best firms in the state and some of the better ones in the country, that it might just be *your* fault. It's not the LSAT's fault that time got called before you could figure out where to seat the green alien, it's not your contracts professor's fault that you couldn't recognize basic principles -- it's pretty much just yours. To not recognize that in what must be at least his mid- to late-twenties is just sad. And to remain a lawyer is even more sad. If his only goal is to make lots of money, there are (again, as pointed out by G.) quite a few more professions in which he could do so -- and even if that isn't the goal, there's no reason to be a lawyer if you don't love it. None.
Furthermore, for the legal profession, or for lawyers at all, to be successful, to do what it is/they are supposed to do, it/they has to be respected. And it's hard enough to get and keep that respect without little twits like that maligning it from the inside merely because they didn't get lucky with a big job offer after sitting around in bars for three years spending daddy's money (ok, I have to admit I spent some of daddy's money too, but I'm not whining about how I didn't land a Skadden job!). The committees on character would do better to be sniffing out this kind of destructive attitude in new admits, rather than getting all worried over a few late bills from one's college years.
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