Thursday, January 10, 2008

This Week in Rant #3 Lawyers Have it Even Worse

This Times article about how people are now finding that it's not so worthwhile to be a lawyer (or doctor) anymore makes its examination of how lawyering sucks by looking at only the top 10% of lawyers. They say that at least the money's still good. Guess what, it's not. Welcome to the 21st century, bitch. The jobs they're talking about only go to Ivy graduates and the top 10% at other law schools. Most of everyone else can expect to spend their first few years in practice making, after loan payments, less than they made or would've made with a BA, and to be working twice as hard.

Who the fuck is the Times Style section written for anyway? Exclusively prep school/trust fund people that have to be less than 5% of the paper's readership? Why is every article in there about how it's now fashionable to buy a mini elephant for your vacation home in Spain? Would it kill them to print one fucking article with some trick for how to get drunk for less than $20 in New York?

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