watch but more so listen to this video...

[sombrio]

Ha, I hear you on that. One of my big turning points was when I Googled "support group for recovering attorneys" just for a laugh, and found somebody who has a business helping lawyers get out of law. I'm pretty sure there's more than one, too. An entire cottage industry dedicated to helping professionals get out of their profession. What other business has that?

My undergrad degree was in politics, so there's not much I can do with that. I want to get more involved in politics (you can see some of my reason why in this very thread) but probably not as a paying career. Here in California at least, teachers in public K-12 schools generally have a master's degree in education that they get together with their teaching credential. Colleges are a little looser, and there are some positions that say you're qualified if you have an undergrad degree in a relevant field plus a JD. I've applied for some of those but never got a response. I suspect the college professor market is as bad as the law market. One idea I've been kicking around is to do one of these programs where you work your ass off for a year, get paid very little, but get a master's degree and a teaching credential at the end of it. I think I could stick it out for one rough year. But I'm not sure whether I want to be a high school teacher that much. Maybe, but I just don't know. I don't want to pour myself into another career just to get burned out again. I would love to make a career out of writing, but it's not the kind of thing that pays the bills right now. Thank God for my wife!

I have/had a blog (haven't done anything with it for a year or so) but it was about politics, sports and culture, not myself. I guess my story would be relatable to many, but I also think it's so common as to be uninteresting, and I'd get a little uncomfortable blogging about something so intensely personal. Besides, the truth is just that I'm fucking lucky. I got lucky by having relatives who could help me with my student loans and by having a wife who makes a reasonable salary at a steady job.

Besides, most of what I really want to say about the situation, I can generalize to the American economy as a whole. It's not just lawyers who played by the rules, worked hard, did everything they were told to, and then had the job market swept out from under them, after all; it's not just lawyers who are being abused by their employers; and it's not just lawyers who are suffering at the hands of a rigged, oligarchic corporate economy. I've blogged about this at length but in the end I found it depressing because there's only so many ways you can say this stuff before it starts to look very repetitive. Maybe I'll give it another try sometime, but in the meantime I'm enjoying focusing on fiction.

I'm curious about your experiences, too. Are you still in Mexico? I don't think I've ever talked to a Mexican lawyer in detail, now that I think about it. What's the market like? Are there any things about the legal system that would surprise me? Not that it has much to do with anything, but I thought it was fun learning the Spanish legal terms (in the American system). Like how the complaint is called a "demand." Comparative law is fun.

[thewalrus]

[Les / Vipers Rule]

Lynne Patton, Black Female, Executive for the Trump Foundation "reads her letter."

Do not just trust all you hear and read among the mainstream media, politicians and political hacks.

Lynne Patton's video tells us more...

In the USA notably going back near 100 years, every generation or so a leader comes along to reshape the picture. FDR, JFK (would have had he not been struck down) Ronald Reagan. Now we will see Donald Trump look to rise to a similar position. No man will be a perfect leader. All men who have been and are seen as great ones had flaws. But some men are true leaders ALPHA MALES! The USA and its everyday honest, hard working fair minded people are crying out for this and will rally behind Trump, male, female, minority, well off and not so well off. On said coat tails, people of like minds in other nations will want to ride said US Leadership. In today's seemingly fucked up overly P.C., SJW's, 3rd wave feminists and BLM's world, needs to take this chance on a REAL MAN as President of the USA. Not more beta males who are bought and paid for (political sluts) in power nor any evil, lying woman as such as Hilary Clinton.

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[sombrio]

Trump is a horrible choice for a leader and it has nothing to do with the "PC SJW BLM 3rd wave feminist" stuff. I just don't want the levers of power to be held by a guy who made himself richer at the expense of the poor and thinks that makes him a good guy.

I could take a million dollar loan from family and make a lot of money, too. It wouldn't make me an alpha dog, or smart, or effective, or a leader, or a good person. It would just mean I had more money and didn't have any qualms about using it to fuck people over.

[Les / Vipers Rule]

At the expense of WHICH POOR!? Did Donald Trump get rich by violating any laws? Evidence and feedback by many who know him, worked for him and did business with him show he is a fair and more ethical businessman. But a businessman who knows MONEY and the value and power of it. A man who employed and employs thousands of people. Quite simply he represents what America is said to be and yes I LOVE THAT HE PISSES OFF ALL THE SANCTIMONIOUS, ASSHOLE SJW'S, FEMINISTS AND BLM'S because they are true to themselves, weak minded, self-entitled, fucking lil socialist pigs thinking they are right but are only in reality destroying the greatness of western developed society! Thankfully more and more real, honest, hard working folks of all types and economics want this shit to end and they want an ALPHA MALE as POTUS!

Weak, feminist, beta males need not apply for said job. Angry, female version of Napoleon complex type women need not apply either nor should hold said office especially given that one on the Dems side is UNDER THREE FEDERAL CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS!!!

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[Les / Vipers Rule]

The court case is a civil case where a few students felt they did not get the education his business school promised. This sort of civil suit happens in life from time to time. Hitlery is under US FEDERAL investigation on THREE counts of possible criminal conduct.

Next, prove that Trump denied housing to people due to race. You are the one who comes off as being wrong unless you can support your accusation.

[Les / Vipers Rule]

[the_edge]

[sombrio]

He also (ab)used the bankruptcy laws to get out of paying employees. He has oh so much money (according to his own constant proclamations) but somehow he just can't quite afford to pay his employees what they're legally owed. Hey, give the man a break, times are tough and money is tight and we've all got to tighten our belts a little.

[Les / Vipers Rule]

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