bd, did you fix your canoe yet?
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Just found this.
Canoe Repair Kit—The Girl Scouts of South Texas that go through our canoe program all make a canoe repair kit. It consists of a large medicine bottle with waterproof snap lid containing alcohol swabs for cleaning, then DUCT TAPE wound around the outside for patching.
I love duct tape.
OK, so I was teasing about the Girl Scouts and duct tape.
Check this out. I was actually looking for something like JB weld
Quote: “The whole reason I went to law school was to make enough money that I could pay people to do stuff like this instead of having to do it myself.”
And they wonder why lawyers have image problems? Nothing about “helping people” just about making money! That’s so sad. But that’s about 90% of the profession.
I hear ya James, you should see the way BD flaunts it. Driving around in that vintage Toyota mini van with Hardee’s bags covering the floor. And you should see his yacht! Why it’s a whooping 17 ft 1980 something Bass tracker, with duel seats, aaaand, an electric trolling motor! It even has a colony of worker ants that will clean up a sandwich crust should you drop it on the floor.
Then he has the nerve to show up to fish all decked out in fly fishing attire. Why he looks like he stepped right off the pages of,,,,, Wal-Mart. 😮I sure wish I went to law school so I could be rich like BD… 😉 ;D
Gee, thanks Mike. Now you have given me a whole different sort of image problem.
I wonder what James does for a living. Obviously, whatever it is, he does it for free and donates his entire paycheck to charity.
Sorry buddy, I was just making a point that you’re not a materialistic money grubber like James was suggesting. I actually admire you for that.
I admire you for it too, but seriously bd, I think it is time for that hat you found in a trash can to go.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah.
Zach
Quote: “The whole reason I went to law school was to make enough money that I could pay people to do stuff like this instead of having to do it myself.”
And they wonder why lawyers have image problems? Nothing about “helping people” just about making money! That’s so sad. But that’s about 90% of the profession.
::) Oh brother.
Quote: “The whole reason I went to law school was to make enough money that I could pay people to do stuff like this instead of having to do it myself.”
And they wonder why lawyers have image problems? Nothing about “helping people” just about making money! That’s so sad. But that’s about 90% of the profession.
I think he’s just cranky because Moby dumped him at the last Green Peace outing? It’s ok James, there’s other rainbow warriors in the sea.
Sorry to go completely off the topic, but how do you guys like being a lawyer? Was it worth the time and money of going to law school?
Law school isn’t for everybody. It is not easy, and for most people, it’s quite a bit different than what they expect going in. But personally, I thought law school was definitely worth the time and money.
Keep in mind that “being a lawyer” can mean a whole lot of very different job descriptions – you could do small-firm trial work, mental health law, public interest law, government staff counsel work, or maybe large-firm transactional work. You could be in a courtroom every day, or maybe never see one in your entire career. My current job is nothing like my prior job working for the state supreme court. There are legal jobs out there for all sorts of personalities and temperaments.
Plus, a law degree is a useful thing to have in any number of non-lawyer jobs. I had law school classmates who never intended to be lawyers, but were getting law degees in order to have an edge running their small businesses. There are also opportunities in the worlds of academics, government, and journalism. The FBI does some recruiting from law schools.
Like anything else, you get out of it what you’re willing to put in, but I’ve never spoken with anyone who had earned a J.D. and thought it wasn’t worth it.
bd
It seems like a lot of law school is memorization, is that true?
I don’t know if I’d agree that’s true. There’s a lot of stuff that has to be committed to memory, but that’s true with any subject you have to learn.
When I think of “a lot of memorization,” I think of the rote memorization I had to do in some of my undergrad subjects – for example, in anatomy & physiology you have to memorize the names of a large number of bones, muscles, blood vessels, and nerves; in the higher level math classes you have to memorize a large number of formulas; and in foreign languages you have to memorize what articles go with what nouns.
There’s not much rote memorization like that in law school. Instead, you spend a lot of time learning a general rule, and then figuring out the little twists and turns that happen when the rule gets applied to different factual contexts. Some classes involve a bit of memorization – for example, you have to know the Rules of Civil Procedure, and if you take commercial law you’ll have to memorize some detailed stuff under the Uniform Commercial Code.
But in large part, it’s more about learning concepts than about memorization. I don’t think I ever had to know a date for anything, and nearly all law professors will say they don’t care if you know case names for the exams, as long as you can apply the principles correctly.
That said, I’d note two things: (1) Law school is 3 years rather than 2; and (2) it probably depends on what your undergrad major was, but I thought law school took quite a bit more effort than my undergrad degrees did.
bd
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