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What do biglaw bros say when family asks if you like your job?
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Date: July 31st, 2014 10:50 PM Author: greedy bateful school (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038733) |
Date: July 31st, 2014 10:55 PM Author: bronze boyish gas station it's ok *move on immediately* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038762) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 10:59 PM Author: Startled Resort Yarmulke (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038785) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:00 PM Author: Titillating stage (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038790) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:01 PM Author: Mischievous twinkling uncleanness I enjoy the collegial atmosphere (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038796) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:01 PM Author: greedy bateful school lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038799) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:07 PM Author: Sexy cruise ship "No, but I will stay until I get fired." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038837) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:09 PM Author: greedy bateful school They never get the fired thing. I told them repeatedly for over a year I was waiting to get fired with severance from one bigfirm. Then when it finally happened, they still all acted shocked and horrified. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038848) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:10 PM Author: Sexy cruise ship Are they dumbs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038850) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:11 PM Author: greedy bateful school Blue collar types. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038862) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:13 PM Author: Sexy cruise ship Still odd they don't understand it. Just imagine that it is GM constantly downsizing, but those who are cut get a big severance. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038877) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:15 PM Author: greedy bateful school They seem to be of the get a job at a factory and stick around for 40 years mindset. So, naturally, losing such a job could seem quite devastating. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038890) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:54 PM Author: Sexy cruise ship It is devastating, even at biglaw, for many people.
Depends how prepared you were for it. |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:08 PM Author: multi-colored scarlet hell factory reset button i always say "i like what i do, but i would like to do less of it" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26038841) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:17 PM Author: slap-happy cuckold famous landscape painting "i want to kill myself every second i'm at that job." family member: "haha ur so funny." |
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Date: August 3rd, 2014 5:38 PM Author: concupiscible arrogant juggernaut (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26053474) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 12:18 PM Author: beta bearded french chef (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#40555278) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 12:23 PM Author: khaki 180 native *laugh track* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#40555306) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:47 PM Author: Razzmatazz underhanded locale There's no right way to approach this. I just say it's awesome an move on as quickly as possible. I used to tell the truth but everyone treats you as if you are some diva WR making 10 mil and asking for the ball. No matter how miserable you are, you will not draw sympathy from family members who have 2 kids a mortgage they can barely service and a salary they've worked up to that's half as big as yours.
People who actually have a life are unable to comprehend what it's like to not have one. |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:50 PM Author: Laughsome crotch pistol more or less on point but i've never pretended to like it. no desire to be an actor in my off time. but yea you try to move the conversation on; just a downer otherwise and parents just don't understand (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039152) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:59 PM Author: Razzmatazz underhanded locale You gotta pretend to like it for the ladies, they eat it up. Women can't stand negativity or depression. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039216) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 12:02 AM Author: Laughsome crotch pistol oh that's very true. but does without saying that you have to pretend to be king shit of fuck mountain if you want to fuck new cunt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039237) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:54 PM Author: razzle hall incel Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039183) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:50 PM Author: Rusted violent spot fat ankles I call my family from my car on the way home from the office at like 10 or 11pm. Without fail, my father always asks me how hard I am working even though he knows. It is sort of funny and sad at the same time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039153) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:54 PM Author: irate range My father does the same. I used to think he was taunting me, now I realize there is nothing else in my life to talk about with him. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039185) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:55 PM Author: Startled Resort Yarmulke everytime i see my dad he ages 50 years so i just try to make him happy now I lie and make up stuff he would think is interesting "hey we did a deal with the golf channel the other day they were buying some broadcast rights" blahb lahb lah (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039195) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 12:00 AM Author: irate range I'll send him a link to the WSJ and ask for a picture of the family dog. That's as good as it will get. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039218) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 12:05 AM Author: Rusted violent spot fat ankles The same. He looks up the stuff I am working on (all public obviously) and I send him pictures of stuff I buy and he sends pics of my dog to me and tells me stories about the crazy stuff the dog does. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039244) |
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Date: August 1st, 2014 12:08 AM Author: irate range At least the dogs get the attention they need and deserve (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039264) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:52 PM Author: irate range I gave a cousin honest advice about not going to a TTT law school and he told the rest of the family that I was a completely miserable overworked suicidal addict fake veneer lying underperforming fatally ambitious saggy eyed paper pusher and I still haven't convinced them otherwise. He sold me out and didn't know he was right but he was right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039172) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:54 PM Author: Startled Resort Yarmulke pretty cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039188) |
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Date: July 31st, 2014 11:56 PM Author: ruby mind-boggling hominid kitty when I get asked this question I start miming "please fist me to death". my older brother guessed right within like two minutes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26039199) |
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Date: August 3rd, 2014 5:41 PM Author: Wine Point Ratface lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#26053485) |
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Date: August 3rd, 2014 5:59 PM Author: deep ape I used to go into it, but the proles (i.e. everyone but my parents, sadly) thought and still think that it's some normal 9-5 office job, and the whole thing is so foreign to them that they'd never understand bullshit like all-nighters, 24/7 availability demands, Citrix, wet wiping armpits and changing undershirt in office, etc. that I've just given up. Now it's "yeah, pretty busy but fine I guess," and I quickly move on. They still don't have a clue as to why I left flyover when there are lots of "rich" lawyers back home and ask me all kinds of questions about criminal cases in the news and stuff.
My dad is a boomer professional who maed it, and just thought that if I stuck around I'd make partner. Getting canned during ITE made it clear to him that things have changed dramatically since the 70s/80s and that I wasn't exaggerating the long odds, so he finally gets it and no longer goes into stuff like "if you love your job, you'll never work a day in your life!" |
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Date: August 3rd, 2014 8:04 PM Author: bespoke lodge reading party my parents know it sucks, but they try to pretend like i'll be the one who makes it or i'm somehow learning useful shit.
so i'll tell them i'm super busy and they'll say, well, at least you're learning something! and then i'll be like, yeah, i'm learning how to QC binders prepared by paralegals and standardize references to defined terms because I'd have to double-check anything the paralegals do anyway so i may as well just do it myself. |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 12:20 PM Author: Fuchsia dragon job? your subway artistry is a job. biglaw is a way of life, a religion based on the logical dictates of precedent and legislative statute, a paradigm of neurological existence that is abstract and beautiful. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#40555284) |
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Date: July 6th, 2020 12:20 PM Author: Crusty trailer park I love working on deals that make the front page headlines of the WSJ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2633313&forum_id=2#40555291) |