Breaking into the Business. What to do?

For sure. But the thing is, nowadays, there is so much information out there. No excuse for being uninformed about the decisions that shape one's future.

 

As a graduate of Joe's Roadside Law School, I resent that.

 

So true.

 

Try to get your hands on some compromising pictures of a prominent sports editor, preferably pictures of him with a sheep.

 

More lawyers + more law schools + recession = FUBAR.

We have Ivy League PhDs on food stamps. We have unemployed MBAs that can't trade stocks anymore. We have a lot of unemployed JDs that can't write contracts anymore. We don't have enough MDs and the government wants to expand access to doctors to another 30 million patients. Yeah, we need more fucking lawyers.

 

Eh ... You can go to Joe's Roadside Law School and succeed - as long as you know what you're getting into. Maybe it's smack in the middle of where you want to work. Not everyone wants to work in Chicago or New York or D.C., which in my pretentiousness I sometimes seem to forget. Also, maybe you get handed a boatload of scholarship money to attend. Or maybe you graduate in the top 5 percent of your class there.

My point is, graduate school can be a good decision. But you don't just show up for the LSAT, sit in class for three years and then collect your millions. It doesn't quite work that way. But if you go in with eyes wide open and make informed decisions, it can change your life.

 

OK, so everyone give up. Your way is so much better. And haven't I said "medical school," as well? I know that doesn't fit your rant, but it's there in black and white.

Also, the cliche hostility toward "fucking lawyers" is so tired.

 

Where can I get a list of those Ivy Leaugue PhDs on food stamps? Your post is silliness.

 

Thanks for that qualification.

Now, what type sauce would you like for your chicken nuggets?

 

I think they are hanging out with the ones who are "in general, dumber than the rest of the population," a statement that was once made on here with a straight face as fact in support of some inane argument bashing education.

 

Get out some more. I know a chemistry PhD from Cornell who hasn't been able to find work for years. This is not Chinese lit. Academe is full of other stories, Ivy League or not. The boat is full.

Waylon, I guess the answer is always to go to law school. You don't even have the shingle and you have all the answers. You're going to be a good attorney.

 

No, you're right. The answer is always to make $20K a year working nights and weekends in Bumfuck, Nowhere with the threat of a pink slip hanging over your head every day, while refusing to look deeply into other opportunities because, well, everyone knows that there aren't any, right?

And, again it doesn't fit your rant, but if a young sports writer has a latent aptitude for science, then medical school is a route to consider as well. The point is that we don't have to concede all the opportunities to some mysterious group of "other people." I get tired of people accepting low expectations of themselves in this business. There's more out there and available than chasing a 17-year-old to the bus on Friday night deadline.