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The life of attorneys

leftcoastdeac said:
Long hours, nights away from your family, rising costs for drivers, pressure to work (you only get paid when you're behind the wheel)...coupled up with the debt incurred to go to law school in your dream scenario...what's not to love!?
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apparently it's better than being an awesome small town nc attorney!
 
leftcoastdeac said:
Long hours, nights away from your family, rising costs for drivers, pressure to work (you only get paid when you're behind the wheel)...coupled up with the debt incurred to go to law school in your dream scenario...what's not to love!?
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You pretty much described the practice of law, except without the chance to travel the country. I mean, if you have to do all of that, you can either choose to do it in a cube farm in a crappy old bank building or on the open road with a CB radio and an awesome basset hound in the front seat riding shotgun. Give it some thought.
 
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If there was a way to just show up and get a license, without all the classes and money, Id be a long-haul driver for a couple months. It would be an awesome life adventure.

As to the OP, throw me in the camp with Milhouse and Townie. Boo Frickin' Hoo.
 
BillBrasky said:
If there was a way to just show up and get a license, without all the classes and money, Id be a long-haul driver for a couple months. It would be an awesome life adventure.

As to the OP, throw me in the camp with Milhouse and Townie. Boo Frickin' Hoo.
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Brasky gets it. You guys just lack vision.
 
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jhmd2000 said:
As an employee of an "Others Receiving Votes" Law Firm, I object to this stratification.

The happiest lawyers I know are small town North Carolina attorneys. There is a strong argument to be made for 4.5 day work week, low overhead and living ten extra years.

I will probably encourage my kids to go to law school and not practice law. I think it's a good education, but a difficult career to strike the right balance. I hope my children are well-educated long haul truckers. That would be awesome.
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Some of the most successful lawyers I know are in small to midsized shops with their names on the door. They're also some of the better lawyers. And agree re kids. Loved the education, but not sure I would encourage the BSD twins to be lawyers. Up to them, of course .
 
i think you guys have some serious misconceptions about what it would be like to be a long haul trucker. i had a real-life hipster friend who tried the "let's be a trucker!" and it was awful
 
ImTheCaptain said:
i think you guys have some serious misconceptions about what it would be like to be a long haul trucker. i had a real-life hipster friend who tried the "let's be a trucker!" and it was awful
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Ever used a truck stop restroom that was attached to the trucker's nasty shower room? Ever see how those guys sleep, in compartments behind the seat in the cab on a vinyl pad in the truck stop parking lot? Life of filth, man.

I grew up around some truckers...locals as well as guys that hauled cattle from Florida to feedlots in LA and TX. Rough dudes. Snowman in SATB was not an accurate depiction of the American trucker. The law has some severe problems as I noted earlier but a trucker? No fucking way.
 
Main requirement for being an OTR driver is behaving like a giant toddler.
 
Went in-house 1.5 years ago. So freaking glad I did. I just have to keep about 3 people happy, and they're people I trust to make good business decisions and do what is in the best interest of the company and by extension, my best interest. I looked around the GSO landscape and could not figure out where I was going to get enough work to sustain my family for the next 30 years, especially if this one huge client ever bailed on me - so I went all in with the huge client.
 
ImTheCaptain said:
i think you guys have some serious misconceptions about what it would be like to be a long haul trucker. i had a real-life hipster friend who tried the "let's be a trucker!" and it was awful
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How many tremendously happy lawyers do you know?
 
well, i know some happy lawyers, of varying ages. i don't know any tremendously happy anythings, but all the truckers i know are either simpletons, exhausted, disgusting or miserable
 
ImTheCaptain said:
well, i know some happy lawyers, of varying ages. i don't know any tremendously happy anythings, but all the truckers i know are either simpletons, exhausted, disgusting or miserable
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Why do I have to choose?
 
DunkinDeacon said:
I know that there are many attorneys on the board and Wake is a breeding ground, so let's discuss. I've been practicing law for many years and am a partner at a top twenty firm in a big city. I have done well but increasingly recognize that the reward for being a solid attorney is always more work, it never ends and leaves most that I know either underemployed or always hoping or looking to find an alternative profession. Yet society still views doctors and lawyers as positions to be strived for from early days forward? Kids are told that these are positions to strive for in society. Odd. My view is that the practice of law is shrinking and clients are becoming more demanding (as they should be) every year, making the practice more challenging and time-consuming no matter what the size of your practice or practice area may be. What do others think about the practice of law at this point? Surely there are solid rewards for those who work hard and have support for clients, but that pool seems to be shrinking every year and the work and realization issues are palpable. Giant pain in the ass, if you ask me. thoughts?
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If it's a giant pain in the ass, you should have enough money from being a partner at such a firm to quit and start something else or retire.
 
Wait, you're miserable from doing a job that makes everyone else miserable? Shocking.
 
I feel like you guys are at really lousy firms if you're this miserable.

I'm partner at a 15 attorney defense firm and love it.
 
Damn some of y'all are already dead inside. There is nothing more freeing than the open road. Get a sense of adventure.

Although I guess a lot of you did sell your souls to become attorneys, so it makes sense.
 
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