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Why do law students and lawyers seem so self hating?
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Date: July 1st, 2009 9:26 PM Author: bonkers razzle set patrolman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12136906) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 10:25 PM Author: Charcoal drunken university There is a long tradition of self-deprecation in Jewish humor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12137449) |
Date: July 1st, 2009 10:31 PM Author: anal state queen of the night The one's here are particularly insecure. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12137514) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 10:34 PM Author: big disturbing orchestra pit explain' (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12137557) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:56 PM Author: anal state queen of the night Nothing to explain'. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12138497) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:32 PM Author: Crystalline sanctuary "Date: July 1st, 2009 10:31 PM Author: Adjective Assault on a Wise Latina
The one's here are particularly insecure. " |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 10:35 PM Author: Vigorous cruel-hearted cruise ship goal in life Because they are MISERABLE. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12137572) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 10:36 PM Author: Aphrodisiac ladyboy because they are enlightened (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12137582) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 10:43 PM Author: Swashbuckling opaque ticket booth You should separate the typical law student/lawyer with the typical XOXO law student/lawyer. But assuming they're similar:
-- Guilt over the lack of imagination involved in this career choice. Just about anyone can become a lawyer, and too many people do.
-- Feelings that we're not "value-adding" in any way to society
-- Natural pessimism combined with issue spotting education, making already pessimistic people even more pessimistic
-- Inferiority complex over LS curves and knowing that we're not the best. Most lawyers were told their entire lives that they were so smart and special -- until they got to LS and realized they weren't. Now they're jaded. |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:11 PM Author: mildly autistic histrionic institution titcr,
in addition, a lot of them get to BIGLAW and everybody STOPS kissing their ass all of a sudden.
Nobody seems to give a shit about your school or your standardize test scores.
The one thing that made them "special" all their life doesn't matter anymore.
They begin to realize that in the grand scheme of things, they don't really matter and what they do is meaningless. |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:34 PM Author: Brass mind-boggling range circlehead in all fairness, these are basically things that any high achiever deals with (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12138291) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:37 PM Author: Swashbuckling opaque ticket booth Not really. A high achiever who owns a sucessful business probably feels much more fulfilled. Or a high achiever musician with a good career? Or a high achiever engineer?
These are all more fulfilling than law.
Or: Lawyers are more pre-disposed to see other careers as loaded with meaning, in comparison to their meaningless paper-pushing, but I think all jobs suffer from this to an extent. |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:47 PM Author: Talking Azn Yeah i should have just opened a successful business and sold it for $50 million (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12138420) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:39 PM Author: mildly autistic histrionic institution I agree completely.
It just seems so much so Law School because we have been conditioned to believe it is either BIGLAW or bust.
If you aren't doing something that the masses perceive as "prestigious" like BIGLAW, then you must be a failure.
Unfortunately, BIGLAW fails to congratulate or appreciate lawyers for their intelligence, but the rat-race forces more and more students into the grinder.
You find much happier lawyers in areas of law that aren't considered so "prestigious".
Solo practitioners, Gov't lawyers, Smalllaw, non-law careers, on and on and on.
I blame law schools. If they opened the door to more non-BIGLAW avenues, you wouldn't have so many unhappy law students. |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:45 PM Author: Swashbuckling opaque ticket booth A related reason is that most law students based their identity on their work. When work fails to reward them, it throws their entire image into flux.
I feel like most of my non-law friends see work as, well, work. They pride themselves on interpersonal relationships, their body/looks, their hobbies (e.g., cars, music). They don't need work, much less BigLaw, to make them feel special like law students need it. |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:49 PM Author: mildly autistic histrionic institution titcr, 180 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12138441) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:58 PM Author: anal state queen of the night Open the door yourself, you lazy fuck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12138517) |
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Date: July 2nd, 2009 12:02 AM Author: mildly autistic histrionic institution I'm a lazy fuck because I want Career Services to help me find a non-BIGLAW/law firm job straight out of law school.
Wonderful use of logic there, I bet you knocked logical reasoning outta the park! |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:12 PM Author: turquoise step-uncle's house turdskin BECAUSE THEY ARE INTELLIGENT (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12138042) |
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Date: July 1st, 2009 11:31 PM Author: Sapphire Hospital Partner bump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=1031834&forum_id=2#12138254) |