That's what I'm doing right this moment. Or, what I'm supposed to be doing. Proofreading a manual on customs law in Uzbekistan. I've already finished Turkmenistan. We are doing 72 countries in total. That's why I've been working weekends since March. And I'm here to tell you: this is about as boring as life can be.
I work in the Customs and International Trade section of an accounting firm. I'm not writing the manuals; our local offices are writing them. I proofread them for content, to make sure that they are presenting the right topics in the right depth and follow the other conventions of the project.
Hey congrats. When you make it into an honor society for lawyers, does the secret handshake involve putting your hands into each others pockets? If you will take adulation over compensation, come work for me, I will pay you in gold stars and "Atta boys."
WAR COIF? FAST FREDDY PROBABLY HAS THAT CERTIFICATE TOO
Unfortunately, rather than take this opportunity to spar with you, I will just agree. I fervently wish I had refused assignment to my law firm's customs section when I first started out. I would be making much, much more as a litigator than I am now. But I make "just enough" that I would take too big of a step back to go back to the beginning and try a different genre, and "not so much" where I can save a significant enough bankroll to try a different thing. I've fiscally trapped myself by being in this field, which frankly just isn't that valuable. I should've told me ex-boss from that first law firm to go fuck himself a lot earlier than I did. Still not a bad life, overall, but that was a fundamental mistake.
Unfortunately, rather than take this opportunity to spar with you, I will just agree. I fervently wish I had refused assignment to my law firm's customs section when I first started out. I would be making much, much more as a litigator than I am now. But I make "just enough" that I would take too big of a step back to go back to the beginning and try a different genre, and "not so much" where I can save a significant enough bankroll to try a different thing. I've fiscally trapped myself by being in this field, which frankly just isn't that valuable. I should've told me ex-boss from that first law firm to go fuck himself a lot earlier than I did. Still not a bad life, overall, but that was a fundamental mistake.
Walk away from it all and open a shoe store or a Mexican restaurant, You will make more and work less. Sad isn't it?
Aww, c'mon Nate, I still make more than six figures. I just make a lot less than my academic peers. But if it's any consolation, at least I know how to write and spell. Which is something you never seemed to pick up. How come you know seven languages, but can't form a complete sentence in your native tongue?
Aww, c'mon Nate, I still make more than six figures.
So does my yard guy. His uncle "Jose," who coincidently owns a Mexican restaurant, Loaned him the money for his first lawn mower when it looked like the glass ceiling for him was going to be the 10th grade.
Now he probably makes more than most of the Lawyers who's lawns he mows now. This is why Red snake is going to be a lot of peoples hero in a few years. I have a "Type casting" high paying degree too. The only real use it has to me now is making English majors feel dumb.
Honestly, Why do you have to be a Lawyer? You cant stand what you are doing, and are admittedly making less than your peers. In the words of my man Biggs "Run for the fucking hills"
well nate...if he is making more than 6 figures then he is doing better than 90% of the population. sure there maybe a few lawn guys here and there who make 6 figures but they are the exception rather than the rule.
but i agree with u about schill seeming to be unhappy doing what he does. problem is, finding jobs that pay 6 figures a year is a lot harder than u make it out to be.
Now I feel guilty! I thought you were going after me, Nate, but you were being serious! Sorry! I've actually given some thought to bankrolling some sort of side business to see if I can make it take off. That, or moving in-house, and just working 40 hours a week and taking life comparatively easy.
