Employed, unemployed, underemployed, deferred and in 28-day rehab - all attorneys need a National Day of Self-Pity, Thursday, November 26, 2009. The profession and business of law have turned out not to be what the lion's share of lawyers expected it would be. They spent years in school, force-fitted themselves to think like those who create standardized tests, sucked up way too much, pulled too many serial all-nighters, and might have been too clever by far. Few will agree that all that was worth it or what they imaged a career path in law to be.
There is no place for Thanksgiving in 2009. Our President, himself a lawyer, and the Congress, filled with myriad legal types, can declare a National Day of Day of Self-Pity for lawyers, law students, and college students whose parents are pushing them toward law school. Regarding the latter, a CBS News poll, discussed in the December 2009 edition of VANITY FAIR, found that 63% of parents want their offspring to become lawyers, doctors, bankers or The President.
An almost attorney - I left Harvard Law just in time - I will join lawyers across America in feeling sorry for ourselves.
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