Possumblog

If they keep graduating law school grads and said grads pass the bar, this scenario is going to be true as written.

Whyyyyy, there oughta be a law agai...

Never mind. ;)

Just ridiculous. Both Lyman's sister's kids went to law school. The boy is a lawyer now, the girl still in school.

One of our friends has a boy in law school, too.

Ah, but the next-door neighbor's kid took a degree in construction management from LSU and had already started work on Dauphin Island after Ivan.

Who, I wonder, has the brightest future ahead?

Well, I suppose it depends on how they respectively define "brightest," but personally, I always have thought I would rather have practical knowledge--I figure if you know how to make your own food and build your own shelter, you're way ahead of the game. Society lives by laws, so lawyers are necessary, but as you can see by the latest storms, you can't house people in an injunction or writ. We will hopefully always have a need for lawyers, but I think the idea that they all become fabulously wealthy and lead lives of highly dramatic glamour is overloading the field with a few too many people who aren't really suited to it.

Since lawyering is putting the bread and butter on our table, I'm not opposed to them, of course. But I'd sure love it if I had a few relatives who were plumbers, electricians or carpenters. Sadly, none of them have done anything so practical. Also sadly, Justin seems to have not managed the "become fabulously wealthy" part of the lawyer dream, although I suppose I should be glad that we are not indigent either.

For some silly reason, Big Daddy got it into his head that lawyering was respectable. Both his boys are lawyers, and Lyman's sister dropped out of law school when she was seven months pregnant.

I think the whole d88n family is crazy.

Lyman really wanted to be an engineer and had the math skills to back it up, but he had to satify the papa as the first born. Or so he says.

And it's not just lawyers, obviously--just about anyone in the service or government sectors could have the same thing said about them when it comes to just the sheer practicality of fixing and doing to live. I guess the thing is that anyone who chooses their profession more on how much money they think they'll make versus how passionate they are about it, are destined to run into troubles. And if they don't have anything else to make-do with, well, they're sunk.

But I'm proud to be married to a lawyer.

Just think, a lawyer and a journalist. Can you imagine a sleazier couple?

Silly woman. I'd be proud of a lawyerly spouse, too!

As for sleazier couples, you COULD have gotten hitched to the guy who runs the used car lot...

Watch it, fella. I like Benny. He sold me great little second-hand car.

No, not Benny! The other one...