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May 09, 2008

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So, is it a joke, or not?

Most of those suggestions seem to have skill sets that she hasn't demonstrated she has, and most of them don't seem that lucrative, except after years of hard work and a lot of luck.

To the previous commentators: your bosses certainly have you by the gonads, don't they?

This post is not ridiculous. Big Law firms encourage associates to play it safe. They try to hire only people who play it safe. Why? Because it makes it easy and risk free for them to chew you up and spit you out once they've wrung every last bit of value out of you, without fear of backlash.

So if you're already an associate, you are probably highly risk averse when it comes to your career, or someone in hiring made a big mistake. Because an associate who eagerly puts on the golden handcuffs and then becomes terrified of losing them is ever so much easier to manipulate.

But once you can see past the fears they work hard to instill, you will see that for most people the path to a truly rewarding career (i.e. one outside the soul-sucking environs of Big Law) involves taking risks.

Maybe the comment is true - wild risk might be a very secure career path - to professional doom.

This post is ridiculous. I hope it was merely meant as a joke.

"Wild risk is the only secure path."

You're an imbecile.

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