Those who stopped with bachelor degrees are the ones making the big big bucks. We who pursued higher degrees are and will remain in deep trouble, preventing our creating, protecting and growing wealth. Our tragic flaw is that we acquired the habit of thinking. We think, therefore we waste our youth, middle age and young old age saddled with this addiction.
For example, it seems forever that Abovethelaw.com linked to my posts. Not that this has any correlation to my earning power. After all, its readers are in a negative economic state, likely to worsen in the field of law which is shrinking. That fading of jobs and even contract work such as document reviews will accelerate as technical developments continue and clients demand less human, more automation and standardization.
Yet, I have labored over the possible causal factors, ignoring both the paid assignments on the desk and the the need to target new clients. What I've come up with are these hunches:
- My specific post advocating the Catholic Church be sued for public nuisance and my general criticism of that institution may have alienated gatekeeper Elie Mystal. He's a Catholic. It might also have alienated the next level such as David Lat who might be trying to recruit advertisers associated with the Catholic Church.
- The tabloid is moving away from career trend stories [after all, even the laid-off tire of lay-off coverage] to substantive matters of law. Simultaneously, I am moving in the opposite direction. I left Harvard Law School because I didn't/don't cotton to the law part of the legal system. For four years I gave that the old college try and came to fear and loathe every new case going to the U.S. Supreme Court. My passion is power tales such as the re-emergence of state rights and the influence of the state attorneys general.
- The boys and the 1 girl at ATL perceive me as the geezer I am. No country for old ladies.
- The boys and 1 girl at ATL have become intoxicated with power. It's fun to ignore submissions, especially from hopeless OCDs like myself..
Other weighty legal matters which have prevented me attending to paid work and hustling for more include:
- Does boil-the-hard drive famous plaintiff Aaron Charney hate law firm life? I have a sense he does.
- Does perfect-business-model Jones Day have dark employment-policy secrets and is it just more effective than other law firms in discouraging leaking and gossiping?
- Will Robert Shapiro, co-founder of LegalZoom, appear on "Larry King" and announce that Richard Susskind was on the money and there is no longer money in traditional law firm careers.
- Has the old-guard such as Philip Howard, the masses at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Motley Rice, in-house corporate lawyers, and deans at law schools embraced that they have to change or die?
- When will it be 90% safe to eat raw cookie dough? That will have to directed to Bill Marler, who has somehow managed to bypass a love affair with the mind and jump into action on emerging trends, e.g. China's mutating legal system as it enters the global supply chain.
This dumped from my thinking chambers, I have made room for more and perhaps deeper lines of thought tomorrow. I must continue improving my mind. That's what it's all about, isn't it.
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