I urge us all to follow friend Rover’s advice. I foresee a beautiful shimmering world where everyone is a tax lawyer. That way, we would all be immune from redundancy, and the rigors of the current straitened financial environment. You can be sure that, should I lose my job, I will be retrained as one in a jiffy. If I fail to do so, it is nobody’s fault but mine.
People, there is no such thing as society: we’re all individuals, and no individual really needs developers and DBAs and garbage men and factory workers and bus drivers and nurses and farmers. I have a dream where we are all rolling around in coins like Scrooge McDuck, lawyering each other’s taxes. Come and join me in this vision of perfection.
Oh man, that is a hilarious site. Thank you. And on a seperate note, I shamefacedly admit to an overabundance of clearlys in my memos. I just went ahead and erased them with cheeks slightly flaming.
Lots of tax people go straight to an LLM program after their JD. I didn’t though because I’m a badass.
I’m not sure what your point is exactly. You act like every employer implements a hhiring freeze in all departments at the same time. People that are in high demand are alwyas in higher demand, even if overall demand is low. And before I had tax experience I had other kickass resume stuff like law review and order of the coif.
What I want to know is why he keeps calling a BlackBerry a “blackberry.” Shouldn’t an attorney and Great Brain like himself be familiar with the concept of trademark dilution?
Ah, the coif. Popular in Elizabethan England, where people knew what to do with a “man” like Rand Rover:
“The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers.” - Shakespeare, Henry VI
I didn’t read your post correctly, I thought you were referring to Rand Rover. I don’t why LOL is so frowned upon, I find it and all it’s variants really useful.
I’m glad you’re well off and your job is secure. And you’re right…not everyone is equal. Some people are harder workers than others, have better educations than others, and have other traits that make them more employable. And you’re also right that if you’re laid off, it’s a good idea to get education or training to makle you more employable (that’s a good idea even if you’re not laid off). And of course, making bad decisions is never good.
However, that being said, it really is the height of boorishness to kick someone when they’re down. there’s nothing wrong with suggesting to someone ways they can improve their lives, and even suggesting that their previous bad decisions led to their current situation, but if you’re going to do it, you need to do it with compassion. Otherwise, it just looks like you’re gloating about how much better your life is than theirs.
I’m sure in real life you’re a compassionate person, but you have to realize that you’re not really coming off that way here.
Probably because he doesn’t have any more reason than I do to care about whether blackberry’s trademark is diluted. Your comment makes no sense.
I don’t see any reason to doubt that Rand Rover is a tax lawyer. A young and naive tax lawyer I suspect, but I don’t see anything about him not compatible with him being what he says he is.
There is no profession more vain, more self-aggrandizing, and more worthy of contempt than lawyers (other than some types of doctors). But as it applies to RR, while he may be very proud of himself indeed, very few children grow up dreaming of becoming a tax attorney. Why? Because it’s BORING. You may rake in the dough, but at the end of his life, I sincerely doubt he could claim that he made the world a better place because of what he did for a living.
Even Ayn Rand could have tried to make that claim by writing her novels.
I suspect they hate filling tax positions mainly because of the type of people who are attracted to the field (assuming you are a representative example).
