Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5750|London, England

Uzique wrote:

he'll take any opportunity to tell you what a stupid decision you've made...

and then in another thread he'll gladly share with you how he's going to make so much money and is so wise in his decisions

and the best thing is that all the advice is free! you silly lawyer! go be someone's bitch!
And Uzique, I don't pick on peoples life choices except when it comes to people who major in things like EngLit and Sociology. Don't get your knickers in a bunch.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Jay
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+2,006|5750|London, England

Uzique wrote:

galt i don't think anyone is delusional here about anything. he asked for a bit of fucking help with his degree homework, jesus

i musta missed the part where he said he's gonna go be mr. kardashian in hollywood after finishing the chemistry unit

perhaps the only person that needs a dose of objective reality is you; your self-assurance about everything is fucking hilarious
It comes with age and experience. You'll get there one day.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
liquidat0r
wtf.
+2,223|7019|UK
Try downloading the texbook as a pdf/djvu/etc

/illegal advice
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
dude you're like 5 years older than me and you're in fucking community college

literally, get over yourself
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Jay
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+2,006|5750|London, England

Uzique wrote:

dude you're like 5 years older than me and you're in fucking community college

literally, get over yourself
Who's in community college? lol. I think you have me confused with Macbeth.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
..teddy..jimmy
Member
+1,393|7041

JohnG@lt wrote:

Uzique wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:


Yep. Practicing law is even more tedious than the academic side. Do you think you will just step into trial law? No, you're gonna be some firms bitch for years doing nothing but researching old cases.
teddy what he's trying to say is that you need to join the military, come from a poor background, and then go into engineering

it's pretty much understood that the only way any graduate is ever going to have a good life is if they graduate in Life Studies from Galt University
No, I was just trying to give him a dose of reality. Being a lawyer isn't anything like what you see on tv.
No shit.
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862

JohnG@lt wrote:

Uzique wrote:

he'll take any opportunity to tell you what a stupid decision you've made...

and then in another thread he'll gladly share with you how he's going to make so much money and is so wise in his decisions

and the best thing is that all the advice is free! you silly lawyer! go be someone's bitch!
And Uzique, I don't pick on peoples life choices except when it comes to people who major in things like EngLit and Sociology. Don't get your knickers in a bunch.
i had the opportunity to do law at a top uk university but didn't want to because my friend who took a first in jurisprudence from wadham said it was the most soul-destroying experience of his life. so i guess my life choice sucks, seeing as i'm really enjoying my university experience, and his was great? okie dokes. yet again you know better than everyone. i should just move to the butt-end of america, take an engineering degree and hang out in the academic melting pot with you and macbeth
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Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5750|London, England

Uzique wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

Uzique wrote:

he'll take any opportunity to tell you what a stupid decision you've made...

and then in another thread he'll gladly share with you how he's going to make so much money and is so wise in his decisions

and the best thing is that all the advice is free! you silly lawyer! go be someone's bitch!
And Uzique, I don't pick on peoples life choices except when it comes to people who major in things like EngLit and Sociology. Don't get your knickers in a bunch.
i had the opportunity to do law at a top uk university but didn't want to because my friend who took a first in jurisprudence from wadham said it was the most soul-destroying experience of his life. so i guess my life choice sucks, seeing as i'm really enjoying my university experience, and his was great? okie dokes. yet again you know better than everyone. i should just move to the butt-end of america, take an engineering degree and hang out in the academic melting pot with you and macbeth
Nah, I'd never want to be a lawyer. I've always been told it's not worth the money.

I keep telling you, engineering was the correct choice for me. It's not the correct choice for all. My complaints about certain degrees are simply complaints directed at the expectations that people have in regards to their education. I've known many, many people that hold degrees in English and outside of the ones that went on to teach, none of them are working in their field of study. Hell, my girlfriend was an English major with a minor in Journalism and now she does online marketing. She found work but her degree is almost entirely useless to her in the real world. All it did was allow her to pass the barrier to entry into the corporate world. The lack of education in math has really handicapped her as well. She has to come to me for shit as simple as doing percentages.

I bash Liberal Arts educations simply because people come out of school expecting to make $50k+ a year when the reality is far different. Heightened expectations when all they did was spend four years and tens of thousands of dollars expanding their high school education. The entire degree system as requirement for entry is absurd. Lazy HR departments and marketing on the part of the college industry has made it this way and there is no reason for it to be so.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
just stop talking

you talk about 'the right thing for you' and then go off and generalize about every one fucking else! such a fucking retard.

nice little polemic, though. just another way of making the world wrong and your view right, eh
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Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
but you know what actually thanks i'm really glad you shared that because a better understanding of shit-to-average liberal arts degrees in the middle of fucking america really helps me to re-evaluate the worth and prospects of my own career in england, from a different background, going to a different school and with an entirely different skillset.

btw if you have any easy online tutorials to that percentages thing, i'd appreciate it. im trying to buy some clothes with a '10% off' offer of reduction and i just can't figure out how much money i'm set to save
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..teddy..jimmy
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JohnG@lt wrote:

Uzique wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:


And Uzique, I don't pick on peoples life choices except when it comes to people who major in things like EngLit and Sociology. Don't get your knickers in a bunch.
i had the opportunity to do law at a top uk university but didn't want to because my friend who took a first in jurisprudence from wadham said it was the most soul-destroying experience of his life. so i guess my life choice sucks, seeing as i'm really enjoying my university experience, and his was great? okie dokes. yet again you know better than everyone. i should just move to the butt-end of america, take an engineering degree and hang out in the academic melting pot with you and macbeth
Nah, I'd never want to be a lawyer. I've always been told it's not worth the money.

I keep telling you, engineering was the correct choice for me. It's not the correct choice for all. My complaints about certain degrees are simply complaints directed at the expectations that people have in regards to their education. I've known many, many people that hold degrees in English and outside of the ones that went on to teach, none of them are working in their field of study. Hell, my girlfriend was an English major with a minor in Journalism and now she does online marketing. She found work but her degree is almost entirely useless to her in the real world. All it did was allow her to pass the barrier to entry into the corporate world. The lack of education in math has really handicapped her as well. She has to come to me for shit as simple as doing percentages.

I bash Liberal Arts educations simply because people come out of school expecting to make $50k+ a year when the reality is far different. Heightened expectations when all they did was spend four years and tens of thousands of dollars expanding their high school education. The entire degree system as requirement for entry is absurd. Lazy HR departments and marketing on the part of the college industry has made it this way and there is no reason for it to be so.
Fair enough. Tip for the future though. I don't think you should patronize me thinking I'm naive not knowing what the career path of a lawyer entails when you probably know very little about it yourself coming from an engineering background. It's just a bit arrogant.

Having studied the law for three years, worked at a law firm for four months and come from parents who are both commercial solicitors I think I know what I'm getting myself into
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
yeah but jimmy galt knows this mexican that knows a girl that knows a guy in new jersey once that graduated with a 2:2 from a community college and was totally pissed when she didn't manage to get hold of a manhattan apartment and a job for pierce & pierce immediately

so really, you should maybe accept the wizened knowledge of a more travelled, worldly older man and accept that you probably are naive and a bit stupid and your degree probably isn't worth as much as his
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Jay
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+2,006|5750|London, England

Uzique wrote:

just stop talking

you talk about 'the right thing for you' and then go off and generalize about every one fucking else! such a fucking retard.

nice little polemic, though. just another way of making the world wrong and your view right, eh
So what do you plan on doing with your degree once you finish university? Do you plan on becoming a writer? An editor? Newspapers? Books? Blogger? Just out of curiosity, how many of the Great Authors that you've studied had a formal education in English Literature before they started their careers? Did Joyce and Hemingway hold English degrees from Oxford when they wrote their works?
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Jay
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..teddy..jimmy wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:

Uzique wrote:


i had the opportunity to do law at a top uk university but didn't want to because my friend who took a first in jurisprudence from wadham said it was the most soul-destroying experience of his life. so i guess my life choice sucks, seeing as i'm really enjoying my university experience, and his was great? okie dokes. yet again you know better than everyone. i should just move to the butt-end of america, take an engineering degree and hang out in the academic melting pot with you and macbeth
Nah, I'd never want to be a lawyer. I've always been told it's not worth the money.

I keep telling you, engineering was the correct choice for me. It's not the correct choice for all. My complaints about certain degrees are simply complaints directed at the expectations that people have in regards to their education. I've known many, many people that hold degrees in English and outside of the ones that went on to teach, none of them are working in their field of study. Hell, my girlfriend was an English major with a minor in Journalism and now she does online marketing. She found work but her degree is almost entirely useless to her in the real world. All it did was allow her to pass the barrier to entry into the corporate world. The lack of education in math has really handicapped her as well. She has to come to me for shit as simple as doing percentages.

I bash Liberal Arts educations simply because people come out of school expecting to make $50k+ a year when the reality is far different. Heightened expectations when all they did was spend four years and tens of thousands of dollars expanding their high school education. The entire degree system as requirement for entry is absurd. Lazy HR departments and marketing on the part of the college industry has made it this way and there is no reason for it to be so.
Fair enough. Tip for the future though. I don't think you should patronize me thinking I'm naive not knowing what the career path of a lawyer entails when you probably know very little about it yourself coming from an engineering background. It's just a bit arrogant.

Having studied the law for three years, worked at a law firm for four months and come from parents who are both commercial solicitors I think I know what I'm getting myself into
I have quite a few lawyer friends Was just trying to give a friendly heads up.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Shocking
sorry you feel that way
+333|6391|...
My mum has her own lawyer's firm.

It's a horribly boring job with whiny people coming in and out your company all day every day and I won't ever want to work in the field. A law degree however is worth the money.
inane little opines
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
galt

stop

talking

btw pretty funny how both the writers you mention as some 'HAH!' example have formal education/training in english
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Jay
Bork! Bork! Bork!
+2,006|5750|London, England

Uzique wrote:

galt

stop

talking

btw pretty funny how both the writers you mention as some 'HAH!' example have formal education/training in english
Dude, whatever. You wouldn't spend so much time and effort defending yourself on here if there wasn't a grain of truth in what we say. You know damn well that your degree is worthless, you're just a lazy fuck who doesn't care because he has daddy's money to fall back on. I don't know where you get off putting on airs but you're nothing more than a sickly looking WoW playing nerd who thinks he's cool because he got invited to a party one time where there were actual living breathing females. Maybe one let you touch her boob, maybe not, but you'll keep inflating the story and spreading it around here in order to make yourself appear cooler than you are to a bunch of people you'll never meet. You're a fucking loser Uzique. Get the fuck over yourself.
"Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough."
-Frederick Bastiat
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
hahaha

1-0

but yeah i mean joyce, orwell, huxley... all these trash writers with their trash degrees. i'm really glad you flagged them up as examples
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..teddy..jimmy
Member
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JohnG@lt wrote:

..teddy..jimmy wrote:

JohnG@lt wrote:


Nah, I'd never want to be a lawyer. I've always been told it's not worth the money.

I keep telling you, engineering was the correct choice for me. It's not the correct choice for all. My complaints about certain degrees are simply complaints directed at the expectations that people have in regards to their education. I've known many, many people that hold degrees in English and outside of the ones that went on to teach, none of them are working in their field of study. Hell, my girlfriend was an English major with a minor in Journalism and now she does online marketing. She found work but her degree is almost entirely useless to her in the real world. All it did was allow her to pass the barrier to entry into the corporate world. The lack of education in math has really handicapped her as well. She has to come to me for shit as simple as doing percentages.

I bash Liberal Arts educations simply because people come out of school expecting to make $50k+ a year when the reality is far different. Heightened expectations when all they did was spend four years and tens of thousands of dollars expanding their high school education. The entire degree system as requirement for entry is absurd. Lazy HR departments and marketing on the part of the college industry has made it this way and there is no reason for it to be so.
Fair enough. Tip for the future though. I don't think you should patronize me thinking I'm naive not knowing what the career path of a lawyer entails when you probably know very little about it yourself coming from an engineering background. It's just a bit arrogant.

Having studied the law for three years, worked at a law firm for four months and come from parents who are both commercial solicitors I think I know what I'm getting myself into
I have quite a few lawyer friends Was just trying to give a friendly heads up.
...and I appreciate that. I know many engineers who all say it's a boring profession... career paths are subjective and vary from person to person. I'm just tired of people telling me the profession is boring without thinking I don't know what it entails and that I may find it quite interesting.

Cheers for the chat chaps, I'm off back to work. Thanks to those who helped.
Shocking
sorry you feel that way
+333|6391|...
Orwell didn't actually have a degree did he?

..teddy..jimmy wrote:

...and I appreciate that. I know many engineers who all say it's a boring profession... career paths are subjective and vary from person to person. I'm just tired of people telling me the profession is boring without thinking I don't know what it entails and that I may find it quite interesting.

Cheers for the chat chaps, I'm off back to work. Thanks to those who helped.
My mum loves being a lawyer and still is after almost 40* years, as you said, it's all subjective.

Last edited by dayarath (2010-11-29 08:22:44)

inane little opines
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
orwell himself had a deep-seated hatred of toff-institutions, having been one of those curious examples of a public-school boy with a chip on his shoulder. but he was formally trained specifically in english, that was my point. galt was trying to make the suggestion that no great author has ever benefitted from a formal education or training in english... absolute rubbish. but i was being facetious about it all, anyway, because his 'argument' is a load of bollocks from the start. i don't even want to be a writer. i want to be an engineer.
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DesertFox-
The very model of a modern major general
+796|7076|United States of America
Awww, I got all excited about this, as I haven't done any proper organic chem in a semester. That's rather bush league that they give you the rather large clue about the substance, though. They ought to make give you a mass spec, IR spec, and NMR spec to make you figure out the formula and structure of the compound
presidentsheep
Back to the Fuhrer
+208|6353|Places 'n such
Suppose the bank notes and crime scene thing might have given away it was cocaine. Pretty lazy of the teacher to just copy that graph though.
The advice in this thread makes me laugh though. Think I'll combine it all and go do a degree in media studies at some ex polytechnic college.
I'd type my pc specs out all fancy again but teh mods would remove it. Again.
Uzique
dasein.
+2,865|6862
pretty much all bank notes have trace amounts of coke on them though
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tuckergustav
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..teddy..jimmy wrote:

Cheers for the chat chaps, I'm off back to work. Thanks to those who helped.
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