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SlashOZ
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The more useful life?
#14015507 - 02/23/11 06:25 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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I'm at a point in my life where I am trying to decide whether or not to continue furthering my eduction. I've been accepted into law school for this fall. At the same time I have been a river guide for 4+ summers and could just as easily keep working jobs during the winter at ski resorts.
Going to school would challenge me far more than the relatively easy path of seasonal work. However, seasonal work is really fun with constantly changing people and locations. One provides a potential for a large sum of money at the end of the day while the other means i'm living paycheck to paycheck with no real hope of settling down.
Which would you choose? A life of constancy or one of change?
I feel that in our domesticated society law school would be a very good bet to make with my life. On the other hand I would to keep
-------------------- "Life sucks but in this really beautiful way" - Axl Rose "Life's a bitch and then you die that's why we get high cuz you never know when you're gonna go." - NAS "When people don't know what you're about they put you down and shut you out" - Black Sabbath "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind" - Gandhi "Look up at me I am God, look down on me and I am evil, look at me I am you." - Charles Manson. "Don't question my reality." - Me (as far as I know)
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Icelander
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Re: The more useful life? [Re: SlashOZ]
#14015558 - 02/23/11 06:34 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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SlashOZ said: I'm at a point in my life where I am trying to decide whether or not to continue furthering my eduction. I've been accepted into law school for this fall. At the same time I have been a river guide for 4+ summers and could just as easily keep working jobs during the winter at ski resorts.
Going to school would challenge me far more than the relatively easy path of seasonal work. However, seasonal work is really fun with constantly changing people and locations. One provides a potential for a large sum of money at the end of the day while the other means i'm living paycheck to paycheck with no real hope of settling down.
Which would you choose? A life of constancy or one of change?
I feel that in our domesticated society law school would be a very good bet to make with my life. On the other hand I would to keep
Stick to the river
There's a glut of sick fuck slimy lawyers out there right now. You might not get a job and be able to be a slimy working criminal type lawyer.
Maybe you could join the army.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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Re: The more useful life? [Re: Icelander] 1
#14016637 - 02/23/11 09:37 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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being a student of knowledge is the only thing in life worth working for. you should do both, do what you love, and go to school. but dont go to school for the paycheck, i feel thats a great mistake you would probably regret at some point in the future.
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Blondell_Letrange
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Re: The more useful life? [Re: afoafsgoat]
#14016893 - 02/23/11 10:20 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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but dont go to school for the paycheck
This is why I never expect to have ANY money in my future
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afoafsgoat
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my brother once said to me "money cant buy you happiness, but it can buy a lot of freedom"
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Icelander
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All you need is a little money to have a good life. Enough to pay the bills and a little cushion for the rough times that always come.
I've never made much but I happily retired at 55. I don't have much but it's enough.
-------------------- "Don't believe everything you think". -Anom. " All that lives was born to die"-Anom. With much wisdom comes much sorrow, The more knowledge, the more grief. Ecclesiastes circa 350 BC
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afoafsgoat
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Re: The more useful life? [Re: Icelander]
#14016947 - 02/23/11 10:29 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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amen
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sixxy
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Re: The more useful life? [Re: afoafsgoat]
#14017107 - 02/23/11 10:57 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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your education doesnt stop just because it isnt institutionalized, as a matter of fact Id say some of the dumbest people Ive known were career students...utterly useless outside of manufactured surroundings.
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Blondell_Letrange
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Re: The more useful life? [Re: sixxy]
#14017139 - 02/23/11 11:02 PM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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sixxy said: your education doesnt stop just because it isnt institutionalized, as a matter of fact Id say some of the dumbest people Ive known were career students...utterly useless outside of manufactured surroundings.
I don't think anyone is suggesting that education does stop (or doesn't start for that matter) outside of institutions, it just depends what type of education you desire...
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amuzakat
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Re: The more useful life? [Re: SlashOZ]
#14019076 - 02/24/11 10:01 AM (12 years, 11 months ago) |
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SlashOZ said: I'm at a point in my life where I am trying to decide whether or not to continue furthering my eduction. I've been accepted into law school for this fall. At the same time I have been a river guide for 4+ summers and could just as easily keep working jobs during the winter at ski resorts.
Going to school would challenge me far more than the relatively easy path of seasonal work. However, seasonal work is really fun with constantly changing people and locations. One provides a potential for a large sum of money at the end of the day while the other means i'm living paycheck to paycheck with no real hope of settling down.
Which would you choose? A life of constancy or one of change?
I feel that in our domesticated society law school would be a very good bet to make with my life. On the other hand I would to keep
Law is a good foundation. You don't need to work as a lawyer necessarily. Doors are open in many different fields according to what you choose to specialize in. I don't know how university works in the u.S. but in most countries in Europe you could still have a guide job for a few months in the summer without loosing out on your degree. Why choose when you can have both? But I agree with what some said, that you shouldn't choose law ONLY because of what you perceive will be your future pay check. You should have some interest in law and legal argument.
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