(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501705)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501803)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502150)

What is your biggest accomplishment?

You're a 180 poster.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501700)

Do you think it’s even possible to prevent something like this?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501782)

ps: Happy Birthday

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502050)

*resumes browsing the dozens of front page threads about some pumo mod being an alt, squabbles over who's following who around xo and poasting 24/7, attempts to catalog alts, and whispers of a shadowy snapchat group from 2017 that runs xo behind the scenes and swung the results of xo's premier annual popularity contest*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37513552)

I think it was Will Rogers who said a man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be. I am pretty adaptable, and it's amazing how the bizarre seems commonplace after a while.

We have a second home in another part of the country, so we get away from the daily personal conflict for a few months/year.

Nevertheless, it's hard. In the early days of all this we went to about a million support group meetings. Invariably I was the only man. The pattern was for the husband to split while the wife kept the kid at home trying to "fix" him. See Sandy Hook.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502846)

I'm not an old wisemo like you, but I've found this to be case in my experience. Assuming you're a healthy, ablebodied male.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502905)

That shit is brain poison yet our idiotic elites adore it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37509277)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501716)

i guess the rumors were true, HLS really did have open-admissions fifty some years ago

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501780)

Also happy birthday, if it's today.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501745)

also happy new year retard

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502159)

Why don’t you poast more often?

How do I get rich?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501752)

One thing I lived with that is now gone was military conscription. The draft really limited young healthy males' options. You either were in school, working in a deferred category job (though that went away, too), or in some branch of the service. So between 21 and 25 or so options were reduced. Also, the economy went totally to shit in the early 1970's.

Sorry to be so boring. I really have trouble finding regrets.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502238)

I still bike and play golf, but don't run any more.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501999)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501865)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501887)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501955)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37501969)

https://streamable.com/p4xjo

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37504437)

I have enjoyed Calishitlawguru's descriptions of his PI practice. The humor is good, and I enjoy the camaraderie of all the insults. The most interesting thing is how the hopes and fears of the people on this board are so much like the hopes and fears of my generation. Some of these discussions are like an instant replay of 1975.

It's an interesting on line community. The fact that it is relatively unmoderated is a huge plus.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502148)

For hopes and fears you don't sense a difference with the millennial fear of never owning a home, traditional family, your-future-wife, etc.? The boomer hate here is also very strong (e.g. bootstrap bs).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502210)

Also, do you think there's a point in which someone's too old to change careers to get the best out of it? I'm thinking of either law school or CS as a career change at 32. I've dicked around for 10+ years (making no money, doing not much, am in academia now in a useless social science field).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502005)

I would not recommend law school unless you really think you would like practicing law and can get into a top program. CS is academically much more challenging. Law school is ridiculously easy. I think the computer tech world is a young person's game, but that's just my impression.

What did I hate about law? Mind numbingly boring work and the apprentice structure. Had I gone to LS straight out of college I might not have minded, but I had a grad degree and 3 years in a pretty responsible job under my belt, so it was shock to be treated like a grunt. I was intellectually able to be a lawyer, but my personality was not a good fit.

Since you are in academia, have you thought about moving into university administration? Salaries are sky high in the larger/more prominent places.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502116)

It seems as if you had a pretty good sense of yourself then. You never were that tempted with regards to the rewards of striving for partnership or anything like that in law? (It seems like the scuttlebutt here implies that when you were in law in the 60s/70s/etc, those were the golden years when you could just keep your head down, grind, and then make millions as a partner - would this be accurate to assume?) Also you never considered starting your own firm if you didn't like the big firm structure?

I know the cynics on this board would eviscerate me probably for wishful thinking but the idea of making six figures and then hitting larger rewards down the line in law is pretty tempting to me right now. I earn like $30k a year now.

You're probably right about CS. It seems like by the time I'd finish with re-training in my mid 30s, I'd be an old fogey in the field. Credentials like a PhD or prestige seem like they matter far less.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502164)

Also have you seen age discrimination in any of the other fields you've worked in?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37504334)

This happens everywhere, by the way. Irony that law firms cannot change reality notwithstanding the best intentioned drafting of discrimination laws.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#39458034)

I also have a child with a mental illness who I fund -- hospital, apartment, etc. I usually look forward to the police call, I just hope that nothing terrible has happened.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#39458041)

Did your wife work? If so, who had primary childcare duties, particularly while you were on the road so much?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502266)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4167351&forum_id=2#37502633)

Anything you wish you'd done differently when your kids were young? Could it have prevented the mental issues.