How I did it: threatened to start my own firm, stealing a couple clients and some of the best associates, if not given partnership.

Taking Q's.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849575)

Really, you're a lot more likely to get rich starting out as a biglaw associate than as an IBD analyst. The upside is better for the latter, but the percentage who fail and fall into oblivion is higher.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849653)

You know nothing about I-banking. The first five or six years are an endurance test: 100 hours per week of grunt work, to weed out the people who aren't totally committed to client service. After hustling through that for a few years and getting to clearer air, advancement depends on whether or not you can become the protege of a major player, at which point your career is highly exposed to his.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849824)

Also, Sat. night is the best time for me to post. I don't really get to post much during the week, with my work commitments and family life. But my wife is out of town, my kids are in bed, and my friends are mostly married and with their families.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849840)

http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0597/debugging.aspx

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849950)

On Thursday, I was fed up and brought two senior partners into a conversation, wherein I basically told them that if they didn't make me a P, I'd start my own firm and take 2 clients (whom I named) and 5 talented associates (whom I didn't.)

I figured the move would either get me made or fired. Surprisingly, it worked for the better.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849616)

The reason why a lot of professors are socially inept is that they never need to develop social skills. It's not that they can't; in fact, they'd find it easy if they had incentive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849798)

I disbelieve the poster, because I don't think a biglaw poster would ever be here, but beyond that I see no evidence of the post being flame.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849704)

We don't have many posters like them anymore.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849892)

Note the misguided yet casually authoritative analysis of the finance industry, the stated belief that intelligent people can change their personalities and how people perceive them through force of will, and, most transparently of all, the blatantly implausible query as to the identities of the "prestigious posters" of yore.

HTH, losers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849940)

there is 0 doubt it's pensive

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8849988)

edit: and even more convincingly, the fact that pensive was in anyone's list of "prestigous posters."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8850150)

love,

SonicYouth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=711526&forum_id=2#8850851)