Use the retail job as a stepping stone. It may not be the anticipated career path, but if this blogger shows a work ethic and the ability to do the job in spite of the situation, they can still go far.
One of the problems is the market for lawyers is over saturated. We have more lawyers in the USA than than the rest of the world combined.
I'd say he lost his "last shred of dignity" the day he decided to take up the lawyer business.
You don't learn much that's immediately useful in law school, and particularly you do not learn how to try a case, or how to deal with clients and make money from your legal skills. Take court appointed cases, do criminal and traffic cases, and take cases other attorney's don't have time for. You'll be eating peanut butter and ramen noodles for a few years, but wasn't law school like that? It's hard knocks and dirty socks, but you will learn the rules of evidence in a practical manner and how to put together a trial, and how to examine and cross examine witnesses. You'll learn some valuable lessons about human nature never taught in any school, you'll learn how to set up your own business, and how to be paid for your work and not cheated by your clients, as many will try to do if given the chance. Or, you can ask for it all on a tray by landing a job at a large firm, or not. Want to show me how much dignity you have: cry me a river, or go out into the world and make something of yourself.
salesmen and hamburger flippers are always the brunt of jokes but I was sure as hell glad Walgreens was open Christmas Eve this year...had to go there twice to get some otc medicine....a few years ago, I had to get a thermometer for my baby grandson who turned out to have a temp near 105F...
we depend on the sales people and the hamburger flippers to be there when WE feel the need....
so Mr. BIG SNOT lawyer....maybe you're sales job doesn't let you smoke cigars and wear $500 suits and act all important, but its making you money and you're serving your fellow man...so BUCK UP or otherwise...
And I suppose thise person remaining in Chicago hasn’t put 2 and 2 together. It is probably beneath his dignity to move somewhere cheaper to live and, shudder, get a job in a small midwestern town for a few years at some land use office?
Nope, let’s stay in Chicago and try to get in to the club owned by Rhambo, Obama, and the gangster government there.
But kid, don’t feel too bad kid. There’s a lot of people with master degrees in sociology, music, art history, and philosophy that serve me coffee in the morning. Best cup I have all day.
Should have majored in engineering, medicine or some other useful skill. The world doesn’t need any more lawyers plying their dubious trade and having people with law degrees working at the perfume counter instead of clogging up our already overburdened courts with more frivolous lawsuits is a net gain for society, in my opinion.
Not clear to me whether this is a deliberate farce on his part. If it is, maybe the folks climbing all over him should take chill pills.