God, Bill is one of the only people I know who gives consistently good advice. He always manages to open up my mind to . He's like a motivational speaker and therapist wrapped into one...
Being a very unhappy law student not sure if I even want to take the bar after graduating, hearing this couldn't have come at a better moment. Times like this I believe in fate for coming across the MMPC and binge watching it all night.
***** I get where you're coming from. And I didn't give up - I gave it some thought and I'm going to at least graduate and take the bar exam, and hopefully work off some debt. But after that - well, let's just say I think all of us have a plane waiting to take us to Seattle. The only question is, when will we buy the tickets?
Listen to your gut. I'm an attorney, had that very same feeling ten years ago when it was time to take the bar but ignored it--the result was thirteen years of misery (law school plus ten awful years of practice). This past year I finally had the balls to go after what I really wanted in life and my only regret is not doing it sooner.
I used to be a pharmacist. Parents made me do it, they're both pharmacists. I hated that fucking job. I learned in the first year of college I wanted to do programming/computer science. Told my parents and they said no. So I got the degree and worked as a pharmacist for 4 years. Saved my money furiously and quit last year. Im enrolled at a computer science college and am paying for it in cash. It totally fucking sucks that I wasted 10 years of my life but I try to stay positive. I have money and am now on the path I want to be on. That's better than a lot of people so I try to stay optimistic. Honestly I love learning Java/Python. It's so much more exciting than mixing drugs.
So the moral of the story is, make some sacrifices in order to pursue your dreams, but don't hold back from undertaking different (even menial low-paying) jobs because of pride or vanity or the fact that you may have a degree or education in your pocket
+Kenny Tee make the sacrifices needed to find your purpose in life. Low paying jobs can sustain you through your journey to your success. It sucks but atleast your not a child soldier whose life was taken from him for some terrible regime against his will. You have a chance, take it, no complaining. My translation of what he was telling him
I don't know that this is necessarily a problem with the job itself (and I shouldn't have to mention I Am Not A Lawyer) so much as how many kids are told "You can be a Doctor, a Lawyer, or a Loser."
Brian Kelly except Saul actually gives a shit at the end of the day. That’s the whole problem with the show and why it’s so fucking soft compared to Breaking Bad.
hahahaha and he manages to finish it off with a joke that made me have to almost crawl underneath my desk and laugh my ass offf HAHAHAAHAHAH A jaded pilot hahahahhaahha
Dear everyone, I live in the middle of Manhattan in New York City, and moved here after going to college in Boston. I started in a shitty town in North Carolina called Fayetteville, and I hated it. I'm by no means someone who's accomplished their dreams to the level of Bill Burr, but I am someone who's moved to every city I've wanted to in my life that i didn't need a visa for. I'm moving to Helsinki soon for graduate school. What's my point? If you love a place, there's ZERO reason to not move there. Fucking save money, walk into your job and say "PEACE, I quit, I'm moving to ______" DONE! Live your dreams and be happy, where you live makes 100% difference and there's no reason you can't live there.
The lawyer said he was a public defender and I think THAT'S why he's miserable and says everybody else is miserable. Government jobs are full of resentful people.
The sad truth is this guy willingly! Took this job! And has people's lives in his hands, literally. And it's disturbing to know he could care less. That attitude as a public defender should be grounds to be fired.
Bill is ignoring the fact that the student loans of an attorney are absurd, it’s basically another mortgage payment on top of all your other bills. The only way to have enough money to repay that debt is to continue practicing law. It seems like an awful, completely unsatisfying, apathetic existence.
this lawyer needs to go linked in who the general council for boeing is, fond the department name and find some job there and he will still work in law - but for boeing
I work with attorneys and some of them are definitely miserable. One them always looks like shit and recently got a DUI and has to take the bus everywhere now 😂 Taking the bus isn't a big deal but it's not a major city or anything so most people just don't do it regularly.
My little brother is a prosecutor and does okay for money but doesn't make even close to they do in the private sector. He owns a small house and his wife is pregnant with twins.
I think by now, a defense attorney has about as much energy as a customer service representative. Everyday- dealing with the not so fine line between people/poople. I couldn't do it, not even for the money. I'm not that strong.
There are way more people with law degrees than law jobs in the US (and all Anglophone countries). One rolls out of 3 years of indoctrination with $160k in debt that cannot be discharged with bankruptcy only to find that they cannot get a regular job because they have a JD. Employers do not like to hire JD's for non JD jobs, even as paralegals. A lot of people who do have good jobs are able to get them because of Networks, Affinity groups or just being the only attorney in whatever shity little town they live in. My husband thought the same as the writer referenced in this video, he did end up finishing and passing the bar after moving to a new state. He went to law school in New York but moved the day after graduation, never even took the New York State Bar. It's taken almost 15 years of struggling, sacrificing, not going on family trips, working 70-hour weeks, listening to demeaning language at work, and even a 2 + hour commute to work for a period Of time. While I know that is common in certain parts of the world it is fucking absurd here. He now has a job outside of law that is fullfilling. When people ask him about law school, he always advises against it unless either 1. A scholarship picks up a huge amount of the cost 2. One is guaranteed a job somewhere or 3. The person got into one of the highest tier schools. It's funny, nobody likes hearing this honest advice from an atty who knows what he is talking about. As far as the present caller, don't discount his points. With his debt load he probably cannot leave, even if he's not making enough money. He may be getting some type of loan forgiveness. With his debt loan he probably cannot even have a family much less invest in some tuition all over again. Lawyers are maniacs, law school trains them to most efficiently do whatever it is they're getting paid to do, Meaning freeing a rapist if that is what brings in the paycheck. And as far as depression, just take a look at how many continuing legal education courses deal with attorney substance abuse. After one incident, I said to my husband " I hate attorneys" and he responded " I know all about it, I work with and for attorneys."
I just learned a new word, Implore! Since implode means blowing up inwards (big boom) and explode means the good old horseshit on fire (small boom), shouldnt implore mean to plore inwards and explore mean to plore outwards? Please tell me, me and my friends are gonna start imploring more
Guy sounds like an insecure drifter type (speaking as one) who felt like he should pick a path and so did and now blames the profession rather than his own decision making, needs to wise up and listen to himself
