I’m reading a message board right now.
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Not me, I’m working on my continuing education and professional development by reviewing updates and commentary on global political and economic issues that are relevant to my work.
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Same, I worked ~48 hours a week for 5 months in 2017 and it depressed the shit out of me.
that means you can buy me lunch, and expense it!
and it’s NOT SOCIALISM!
It’s a pretty normal editorial policy to allow for a right to reply, especially when someone is accused of significant wrong-doing.
Here, for example is the BBC policy
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The defense is that you need a certain amount of learning time to be able to do the job competently. I guess you could cut the training down by 50% and make it twice as long. But I’m sure none of them would want to do that. They would far prefer 80hrs for half the time.
I didn’t say it was a good defense. It’s just the defense that is given. It has flaws, but I think there is a kernel of truth in there somewhere.
Yeah, I think this would be a good thing. One of the arguments is that the docs that go through undergrad end up more “well-rounded” – whatever that means. But you could easily throw some humanities and other shit in there and save time over a 4 year bachelor’s degree.
This is bullshit. The hours are filled with scutwork not education
Like I said above
Well, tons of billing fraud helps.
I’ve done weeks of brutal manual labor (predawn-dark) and heavy intellectual labor and if I had to choose, I’d probably go for the manual labor. Intense intellectual work combined with the high-stress nature of the work took a much more significant toll on me than days on end of shoveling mud or other mindless, grinding manual labor. Probably depends on the personality type and setting, too. Like, I’d much prefer farm labor over some tedious, repetitive job in a factory, too.
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Sweeping the floors of our barns and pressure washing off equipment is in many basic ways much more satisfying than nearly all the legal work I do, which basically amounts to researching and analyzing complex and obscure laws/processes and providing analysis that may or may not be listened to and that rarely is appreciated. At the end of the day of sweeping a barn, the place is clean and I can appreciate it in a tangible way.
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It’s a very simple idea but it’s always stuck with me.
My friend who works for a UAW said that even as a lawyer, he gets a sense of satisfaction out of the fact that his work results in American Made cars on the road.
“At the end of the day, People like making things”
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I think you mean “value billing”.
Maybe he can find some segregationists to lunch with in Buffalo.
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I mean the soul of America is basically lynchings so seems like he’s succeded.
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Quite true, although the there is a greater density of meritocracy True Believers in the cities. This urban/rural divide is directly observable in US election results, with Dems representing the technocratic class and Republicans advocating faux populism to win over the rural voters.
Holy fuck. How could anyone not know that.