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Law School Grad Forced Into Retail Job Blogs The Loss Of His 'Last Shred Of Dignity'
Business Insider ^ | December 27, 2013 | Erin Fuchs

Posted on 12/28/2013 4:49:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

As the New Year looms, many law graduates with heavy debt have yet to find work as attorneys — including the author of the self-deprecating new blog "Law Grad Working Retail."

The blog's anonymous author graduated from a law school that was in the top 50 ranked by U.S. News and World Report. He was on law review and even got a summer position at a firm after his second year. He didn't get a job offer though.

This grad still hasn't found legal work and took a job selling cologne just before the holidays to make ends meet. Now he says he's "liveblogging the loss of my last shred of dignity." His blog is both funny and heartbreaking.

The funny parts often involve his coworkers assuming he can answer every law-related question they have. His coworker Shaina grills him after it's discovered that another coworker named Julian is apparently "robbing the stock room blind." Here's the exchange:

"LawGrad, you a lawyer," Shaina began, "can Julian sue the store?"

"For what?"

"You know, accusing him of stealing because he’s Mexican."

"But he was stealing."

"So he can’t sue?"

"No."

Shaina also asks random questions like, "Is it illegal for a hospital to turn you away at the emergency room?" LawGrad tries to tell her he's not actually a lawyer, but she doesn't seem to get it and asks him at least three times what kind of law he practices.

"I told her cologne selling law," he writes.....

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To: Mr. K
"LawGrad, you a lawyer," Shaina began, "can Julian sue the store?" "For what?" "You know, accusing him of stealing because he’s Mexican." "But he was stealing." "So he can’t sue?" "No."

No wonder the guy can't find a job as a lawyer.

21 posted on 12/28/2013 5:19:26 AM PST by sphinx
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To: Mr. K
No sympathy.

A lawyer is standing in a long line at the box office. Suddenly, he feels a pair of hands kneading his shoulders, back, and neck. The lawyer turns around. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" "I'm a chiropractor, and I'm just keeping in practice while I'm waiting in line." "Well, I'm a lawyer, but you don't see me screwing the guy in front of me, do you?"

and

What happens when you give Viagra to lawyers? They grow taller!

22 posted on 12/28/2013 5:20:14 AM PST by logi_cal869
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
This guy is doing the right thing by getting a job he is over qualified for. I sympathize with his frustration of doing all the right things to be successful career-wise, and not having it pay off.

I would tell him the same thing I have told other college graduates having trouble getting their first job after college: Do some volunteer work for an charitable organization you believe in. You make contacts, have something to put on your resume, and are helping people in need all at the same time. There are people in need of help who have been caught in the bottomless tar pit called our legal system.

23 posted on 12/28/2013 5:21:43 AM PST by shatcher (Judges 17:6b Everyone did what was right in his own eyes.)
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To: Mercat

>>. It’s paying the estimated taxes that made me a conservative.

There is very little that changes people’s attitudes more about taxation than having to write quarterly estimated tax payments and pay self-employment tax.

I would love to end payroll withholding and make everyone have to go through this process.


24 posted on 12/28/2013 5:23:22 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excuse me Mr. Lawyer, but didn’t you know there’s an OVERCAPACITY of lawyers in this country? We only have 70% of all the lawyers on the planet trying to earn a living here. Why didn’t you go to a trade school and find real job skills? Oh, I know, getting your hands dirty from manual labor gives you an anxiety attack and causes you to hyperventilate. What a wuss.


25 posted on 12/28/2013 5:25:03 AM PST by MasterGunner01
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To: ilovesarah2012

And secretaries. I was a legal secretary till I became sick in 2008. I wanted to go back to work, but the jobs aren’t there. My last employer had said it would take me back, but by the time I was ready to return, everything had changed. The firm no longer has a secretary for 1 or 2 attorneys. Now it has one secretary for a whole department of maybe 6 or more attorneys. Thanks to all those electronic devices, there really isn’t enough work for that many secretaries.


26 posted on 12/28/2013 5:25:37 AM PST by fatnotlazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I went to his blog and read a few of his posts. It was all I could take. He's a male version of a Debbie Downer. He only sees the negative side of everything. Constant harping about the faults of others, his job etc. all peppered with foul language.

How he can complain about not having a law job when he didn't even go take the bar exam is beyond me. Those law firms that turned him down were on to something.


27 posted on 12/28/2013 5:26:05 AM PST by Shannon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Unemployment income with food stamps has become an upper tier welfare class. The idea of taking a job that doesn't use that useless education is incomprehsible to the entitiled. If they were smart, they'd take a job that promotes from within and has professional jobs up the ladder.

If they actually had to make a living, they'd want there to be tariffs to protect US manufacturing, they'd want the invaders sent home, they'd avoid foreign merchandise that undermines our economy. They'd demand that the laws and regulations that make it near impossible to start and grow a small business were overturned.

They're the segment of the population that should be demanding change and a return to constitutional conservative values. Instead they want handouts and once they get on Medicare they'll be tied forever to upper level wellfare. We are so over as a nation.

28 posted on 12/28/2013 5:27:24 AM PST by grania
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I purchased a book from Nolo Press (a legal publisher) back in the 1990s, which was filled with vignettes of people who had gotten a law degree and not practicing law.

Back then, law schools churned out graduates at a far higher rate than the job market for lawyers could support. Apparently, this is still the case.

Anyone going to college should do some research into their chosen career field first; some majors have far more graduates than job opportunities. If they don’t do that kind of research, they have no business complaining that they can’t find a job in their field.


29 posted on 12/28/2013 5:28:29 AM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He may have lost his pride. But now has a chance at earning dignity through hard work.


30 posted on 12/28/2013 5:34:55 AM PST by D Rider
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

” He didn’t get a job offer though.”

This truth would have reverberated with me. A real clanger.


31 posted on 12/28/2013 5:37:02 AM PST by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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To: MasterGunner01

There are fewer physicians in the US per person than in most OECD countries. In 2010, the U.S. had 2.4 practicing physicians per 1,000 people. The OECD average was 3.1. Obamacare or not, there won’t be a lot of doctors (and nurses) who need to sell cologne to pay the rent. (But that pathway requires a lot more effort and isn’t as pleasant as billing $350/hr for surfing the net.)


32 posted on 12/28/2013 5:40:52 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." M.Twain)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hopey Changy stuff


33 posted on 12/28/2013 5:41:12 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Born to Conserve

It used to be there were factories to send those less academically inclined.

Now they would have to go to China.


34 posted on 12/28/2013 5:41:31 AM PST by Vermont Lt (If you want to keep your dignity, you can keep it. Period........ Just kidding, you can't keep it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

35 posted on 12/28/2013 5:45:09 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: ilovesarah2012

From your keyboard to the Lord’s ears.

Perhaps this is a sign the market for lawyers has reached saturation and can not support any new comers. Now we need to retrain these younger minds in the realities and truths of Conservatism so when they do find jobs as lawyers they take over the socialist cabal who run The Bars and their collective lobbying groups in DC.

Regards and Have a Blessed Happy New Year.


36 posted on 12/28/2013 5:45:59 AM PST by Sine_Pari ( controllers.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Why am I not shocked that this pathetic person has a blog.


37 posted on 12/28/2013 5:47:21 AM PST by humblegunner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bump


38 posted on 12/28/2013 5:47:48 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Gaffer

Plumbers get paid to move the turds, lawyers get paid to stir the turds — that’s why plumbers have more value.


39 posted on 12/28/2013 5:47:48 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He needs to get married and have a kid. That job will be the thing that elevates his dignity....


40 posted on 12/28/2013 5:51:21 AM PST by freebilly (Creepy and the Ass Crackers....)
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