joshjull
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No problemThanks. I completely misread the numbers.
No problemThanks. I completely misread the numbers.
The US per capita cost of health care is double that of Canada and significantly higher than most countries. I am gobsmacked that a country as advanced, as rich, finds itself with the death rates attributed to this virus. It may well be that some other first world countries are fudging numbers but there is no sign of it. Once the virus catches hold in third world counties with their lack of American wealth and know how I shudder at the death estimates.
I'm guessing that number is couched in "accidents."Where is gun violence (appoximately 100 deaths per day over the last several years) on that list?
Oh yeah. The big corporate firms are tied majorly to the stock market. They got hit real bad with the great recession, big layoffs and hardly hired anyone for years.A lot of my lawyer friends who work at large civil firms are getting substantial hours and pay cuts ranging from 25% to 50%. This is impacting everyone it seems.
It sounds like they didn't learn a single f***ing thing. My wife graduated law School in 2011. In 2015, less than 50% of her graduating class were employed as lawyers.Oh yeah. The big corporate firms are tied majorly to the stock market. They got hit real bad with the great recession, big layoffs and hardly hired anyone for years.
Yeah, part of it is about tempering expectations and going to law school for the right reasons. If your goal is just to make a shit load of money at a big corporate firm, let's just say there are other ways to do that without going to law school. And those ways don't involve the debt and risk the law school route has. If you want to be a lowly public servant like myself and don't mine a salary that only has five digits in it (oh the horror!), law school is a fine, safe route to take. I may not have been raking in 300 grand a year like my law school friends, but I also have zero concern about my job security now.It sounds like they didn't learn a single f***ing thing. My wife graduated law School in 2011. In 2015, less than 50% of her graduating class were employed as lawyers.
Oh yeah. The big corporate firms are tied majorly to the stock market. They got hit real bad with the great recession, big layoffs and hardly hired anyone for years.
In 2011, all my wife wanted was a minimal paying job at an NGO. What she encountered was a cascading effect where because the big firms were cutting, she was up against Ivy Leaguers while applying for 32k/yr jobs in DC. It was nuts. She did doc review for 6 years before landing a clerk gig at SEC. All she wanted to do was legal advocacy for refugees. Couldn't get a foot in the door.Yeah, part of it is about tempering expectations and going to law school for the right reasons. If your goal is just to make a shit load of money at a big corporate firm, let's just say there are other ways to do that without going to law school. And those ways don't involve the debt and risk the law school route has. If you want to be a lowly public servant like myself and don't mine a salary that only has five digits in it (oh the horror!), law school is a fine, safe route to take. I may not have been raking in 300 grand a year like my law school friends, but I also have zero concern about my job security now.
Yeah, part of it is about tempering expectations and going to law school for the right reasons. If your goal is just to make a shit load of money at a big corporate firm, let's just say there are other ways to do that without going to law school. And those ways don't involve the debt and risk the law school route has. If you want to be a lowly public servant like myself and don't mine a salary that only has five digits in it (oh the horror!), law school is a fine, safe route to take. I may not have been raking in 300 grand a year like my law school friends, but I also have zero concern about my job security now.
Pleb
Edit: How would you recommend non-lawyers make 300k at a white shoe firm? Having a PhD in a high impact field sure, but once you take time value into account is that really much cheaper than law school? There might not even be as many slots for those as there are at YSH?
I guess I more mean there's ways to make that kind of money in the corporate world without sinking a quarter to a half million dollars into a law degree.Pleb
Edit: How would you recommend non-lawyers make 300k at a white shoe firm? Having a PhD in a high impact field sure, but once you take time value into account is that really much cheaper than law school? There might not even be as many slots for those as there are at YSH?
I guess it really depends on the field. In my work (public defender), someone from an Ivy League school that clearly was just doing this as a backup wouldn't interest us at all. And it's pretty easy to identify those people, because they didn't spend every waking minute oof law school interning at public defender offices (which almost anyone we hire did). On the other hand, I've heard some NGOs and impact litigation firms have more desire for the sort of corporate candidate with that arsenal of experiences, so I could definitely see how those markets get flooded. But on the whole I get what you mean about the cascading effect. Even right the last few years, while the job market was good for lawyers, we would get over 1000 applications every year for our entry level class, with anywhere from like 10-50 tops spots to fill. If all of a sudden a lot more people are looking for those jobs, it gets ugly.In 2011, all my wife wanted was a minimal paying job at an NGO. What she encountered was a cascading effect where because the big firms were cutting, she was up against Ivy Leaguers while applying for 32k/yr jobs in DC. It was nuts. She did doc review for 6 years before landing a clerk gig at SEC. All she wanted to do was legal advocacy for refugees. Couldn't get a foot in the door.
The grocery shopping bit is funny as its pretty much the same here. Most of the men in the grocery stores pre-lockdown were foreigners, the few Filipino men shopping were generally chefs.
Spoiler:Covid jumps to 3rd