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Lawyers are nothing more than... |
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Lawyers are still plebes and peons |
| Date Posted: |
03/25/2001 |
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You claim that the jobs requiring "real brains" are only those that implement "the quantitative fields like accounting, statistics, mathematics, economics, finance, computer science, operations, engineering, physics, etc." Funny that you should mention the sciences that all revolve around mathematics and whose problems will inevitably yield one single, true answer. Lawyers (and others, some of whome you mentioned), rely not only on their abilities to asses and calculate the dynamics of a situation, but also a capicity for problem solving that cannot be done with any given formula. You poor thing... your banal, left-brained banter fills me with sympathy for number-crunchers like you who fool themselves into believing that they are really USING their brains, when the stark reality is that a monkey with a calculator, an armani suit, and (sometimes) the slightest hint of a personality can do the job just as well...
I also noticed that you failed to leave your name. Good move -- when your lawyer is drawing up the documents for your next corporate merger, business venture, or divorce, he or she won't recognize you and your chances of getting "accidentally" screwed are a bit less... |
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Compared to MBAs.
When all is said and done, lawyers are just hired hands and employees working for "The Man".
Putting all bullshit debates about "quantitatve skills", "analytical skills", drafting documents or number-crunching aside, lawyers will always be hired hands working on retainer. Lawyers are never truly part of the "inner circle" of a business, unless they actually take the initiative and co-found the business themselves, in which case they're not acting in their capacity as LAWYERS, but simply as entrepreneurs -- something ANYONE with a reasonable intellect can do. Doesn't require a law degree. But that's simply where the best money is.
On the other hand, MBAs are part of the inner-circle from the get-go, and are far better situated to make the big money FASTER, and with considerably less effort!!!
Now, thinking holistically, my dear, WHO'S SMARTER???
And... I am a lawyer and not an MBA!
Do I regret getting my JD and not my MBA?
Definitely!
:-)
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