the_edge wrote:- I do. I worked in Big Law for a while. That situation I described? It actually happened to a colleague!
- RE Job security, sadly I think that's a thing of the past (thanks globalization! thanks big corp! thanks technology!), unless you get into government or work for yourself. Have you thought about becoming in-house counsel for a company? If you have big law experience, which you seem to have, you have a shot at it, some of my friends are in-house and their quality of life is way better!
- RE Law being a dying profession - it is! Unless you're already settled in and stuff. I read an article about it, basically, technology is rendering law work obsolete (discovery is done electronically, algorithms can data mine legal precedents and stuff like that, contract drafting and the like can be automated, you name it), and what is not done via technology is being sent to india, where 2-cents-an-hour resources do a shit job, then send it back to the states where some law firm partner or the like makes an intern review it, then the partner signs it. All that hassle a US Law grad has to go through to get licensed seems a bit of a shaft when the work is done in a foreign country and then "reviewed" by an intern/"summer associate", and in the end the only work an attorney with an actual license does is to sign the document.
- RE Accord - nothing wrong with them. I used to drive from time to time a 2000 accord coupe, the ones that kind of looked like an Acura NSX in the back, with the V6, I loooved it.
Is this ROD or am I terribly mistaken? It seems we've both grown a lot which is pleasing to see. I never made it into BigLaw, not that I sought it out or would have enjoyed it. I was delusional enough to think small firms would be better. They are not. Shame on me for being naive enough to fall for the law school scam. My feelings on that are similar to my feelings about you putting a virus on my computer when I was 18. It was a dick move, but shame on me for falling for it, and whatever else is wrong with me I'm not too far gone to cut my losses.

It's funny that you mention the '00 Accord coupe. My brother in law had a similar Accord, the '00 or '01 V6, and I took a couple of rides in it and loved the car and started feeling vaguely jealous (this was when I was driving my Audi A4) and thinking I'd sure love to have a car like that if I ever got the chance. A couple of months later, the Audi started
really going to shit and I had gotten a bonus at the firm and started looking for a more reliable car (I was doing a 70 mile round trip commute at the time which for me in LA was about 2-3 hours a day on the road). I did a ton of research and found that that generation of Accord was cheap and reliable so I just went for it. I love my car so much, it's underpowered, automatic and doesn't have a sunroof but those are about its only faults. I really believe that Japanese 4-cylinders are the most reliable engines ever built. It's a marvel of modern engineering. And the guy I bought my car from had put in an awesome subwoofer and HID lights and all this other little stuff too, without any tasteless or "ricey" bullshit. I really do love it. It's been a year and a couple of months and about 16,000 miles and I honestly haven't had a single problem. What other car can you take from 126,000 miles to 142,000 without a single thing going wrong? I fucking love my Honda.
Now if I can just get a full time teaching job and figure out a way to get a H22 engine in there, I'll be a truly happy man.
