[2ndDivisionVet]

[Mr. K]

I thought they surgically removed that in law school anyway

[PATRIOT1876]

It was the worst thing that ever happened!

[Tax-chick]

He was on law review and even got a summer position at a firm after his second year. He didn't get a job offer though.

It doesn't say that he passed the bar exam. Perhaps that's part of his problem?

[ilovesarah2012]

Get a clue - we don’t need no more danged lawyers!!!

[Pollster1]

Anyone who thinks working retail removes his dignity doesn’t deserve a higher-paying job, and I would not have hired him for a college-based position. My three highest priorities in hiring were a work ethic, mathematical ability, and character. Anyone who thought custodial work, retail, waiting tables, construction, or any other “menial” position lacked dignity would not get hired.

[Hot Tabasco]

Next to plumbers, attorneys probably make up the largest section in the Yellow Pages........

[Recompennation]

This grad still hasn’t found legal work and took a job selling cologne.
Problem with perception for him selling cologne is legal. At least he’s working and he deserves applause for that. A lot of people in the good old days (normal/ /prosperous times) took starter jobs beneath? there background/ education.

[Born to Conserve]

It used to be they would separate the academically inclined from the academically weak in sixth grade. Then they decided that everyone needs a complete elementary education, then a complete high school education, then a complete college education. Now it seems everyone needs a complete professional school education.

The world needs cologne sales people too.

[killermosquito]

He should move to Chicago and become a community organizer.

[Celtic Conservative]

I worked retail for 2 years after college until I got in My career field. For another year I worked jobs that paid rock bottom in my field and used them as a stepping stone for the job that I have now. I've been there 20 years now. To the law student in this article: suck it up, buttercup!

[Mercat]

I graduated law school in 1978. I had a husband and a two year old. My grades were okay but not spectacular. I wasn’t on law review but had some good experience in a legal clinic. So I didn’t get picked up by the big firms. boohoo. I did go to work for Legal Aid. It was interesting and I had to learn on my feet. I then had another kid and took off for a year. I then set up my own practice, working in an office with other lawyers. And I advertised at a time when it was looked down on. So for more than 30 years I’ve worked for myself. It’s paying the estimated taxes that made me a conservative. That and being on the front lines of the culture. A scary place to be. So I don’t have any sympathy for these new grads. Get out and learn how to practice law because they don’t teach that in law school and then find other lawyers to mentor you and then start helping people. Get paid if possible but if not, do it anyway.

[Azeem]

Ping

[shatcher]

This guy is doing the right thing by getting a job he is over qualified for. I sympathize with his frustration of doing all the right things to be successful career-wise, and not having it pay off.

I would tell him the same thing I have told other college graduates having trouble getting their first job after college: Do some volunteer work for an charitable organization you believe in. You make contacts, have something to put on your resume, and are helping people in need all at the same time. There are people in need of help who have been caught in the bottomless tar pit called our legal system.

[MasterGunner01]

Excuse me Mr. Lawyer, but didn’t you know there’s an OVERCAPACITY of lawyers in this country? We only have 70% of all the lawyers on the planet trying to earn a living here. Why didn’t you go to a trade school and find real job skills? Oh, I know, getting your hands dirty from manual labor gives you an anxiety attack and causes you to hyperventilate. What a wuss.

[Shannon]

I went to his blog and read a few of his posts. It was all I could take. He's a male version of a Debbie Downer. He only sees the negative side of everything. Constant harping about the faults of others, his job etc. all peppered with foul language.

How he can complain about not having a law job when he didn't even go take the bar exam is beyond me. Those law firms that turned him down were on to something.

[grania]

Unemployment income with food stamps has become an upper tier welfare class. The idea of taking a job that doesn't use that useless education is incomprehsible to the entitiled. If they were smart, they'd take a job that promotes from within and has professional jobs up the ladder.

If they actually had to make a living, they'd want there to be tariffs to protect US manufacturing, they'd want the invaders sent home, they'd avoid foreign merchandise that undermines our economy. They'd demand that the laws and regulations that make it near impossible to start and grow a small business were overturned.

They're the segment of the population that should be demanding change and a return to constitutional conservative values. Instead they want handouts and once they get on Medicare they'll be tied forever to upper level wellfare. We are so over as a nation.

[exDemMom]

I purchased a book from Nolo Press (a legal publisher) back in the 1990s, which was filled with vignettes of people who had gotten a law degree and not practicing law.

Back then, law schools churned out graduates at a far higher rate than the job market for lawyers could support. Apparently, this is still the case.

Anyone going to college should do some research into their chosen career field first; some majors have far more graduates than job opportunities. If they don’t do that kind of research, they have no business complaining that they can’t find a job in their field.

[D Rider]

He may have lost his pride. But now has a chance at earning dignity through hard work.

[TalBlack]

” He didn’t get a job offer though.”

This truth would have reverberated with me. A real clanger.

[Doogle]

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