It's The Law

Before I get into the meat of my post, I'd like to second the enthusiasm of my fellow bloggers for Rihanna's very entertaining pics. The nipple piercings are awesome beyond words. I'd highly highly recommend recreational piercings to almost everyone. Have low self-esteem? A piercing will help with that! Have high self-esteem? You probably already have one.

I read an article today about the fate of some of the more memorable members of the graduating class of 1990 of Harvard Law School. Harvard is a good benchmark to use for success, because, if you couldn't make it coming out of HLS, you couldn't make it anywhere.

With that said, the stories contained in the article aren't stories of laziness or irresponsibility. Instead, I saw again and again in those memoirs the best and brightest being defeated not by work beyond their caliber but instead by disillusionment, self-loathing and despair. Law just really isn't for everyone. In fact, I'd go as far as to say that, the more creative and intelligent you are, the less law is the career for you.

Do you thrive on blazing new paths and setting unforeseen precedents? That is the exact opposite of what a lawyer does. A lawyer checks to see what people have been doing for the past 2000 years or so, then sits and engages in a rather lackluster intellectual exercise intended to determine the worst possible outcome that could arrive from deviating from a very clearly delineated path.

If you're the kind of person who is willing to slave away at a thankless project for days or weeks all to impress people and earn well-deserved praise, law isn't for you. You'll do the work alright, but go in expecting years to pass before your exertions are acknowledged, if they ever are. You're A. The attorney above you is B. The partner is C. C will give B assignments. B will then give them to you. You'll do the work. B will then look at the work you did and give it to C. If C is happy, B will continue giving you work. You will never hear how happy C was with your memo. If C is unhappy, bend over and clench. B will immediately try to distance himself from the project as much as possible making it clear that it was your assignment. C won't give a shit because he won't even know who you are, but expect B to put his dick in you repeatedly for the next week to year depending on how displeased C was.

Do you like having free time? The mantra in law is that if you have free time, you're stealing from the company. Time is meant to be billed to clients. Period. Forever ever? Forever ever ever.