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Everyone I talk to, and I mean everyone is stunned that I have been with my girl for 15 years.

Nearly all of my friends have divorced at least once. I have had only one sweetheart in my entire life. Believe it or not.

Maybe I should become a patent lawyer. Lucrative and steady work. :)

There used to be one on this blog. Where is "escaped from DC?"

At one company I worked for we had a part time patent guy who made 200K a year. Yes, it is the most lucrative field of law IMO. Yes the injury ones do really well but as a steady income patent guys do really really well.

Just a bunch of little people in suits running around the courts and the patent office trying to either erect a barrier, or tear one down.

Your honor, tear down this wall!

I bet those guys still struggle to pay their bills. God lawyers are incompetent with finance. They sure live the rock star life though. A friend of mine's wife worked at a law firm. Man did she have stories, we had a good time once because we went to a baseball game and sat in the box.

bankruptcy lawyers will be big soon, already getting there

ha ha

I even herd Ron's voice in my head as I read that one.

God lawyers are incompetent with finance.

Can't argue. Any high-income professional can be culpable of this.

bankruptcy lawyers will be big soon, already getting there

That would be interesting. Are BK lawyers better at their finances? I heard that many doctors smoke.

Lots of business but it is a commodity. Simple forms, and a zillion lawyers competing. Definitely a big industry. Guess they can do well in volume. We have some real class acts in San Diego.

I love the ones that say little or no money down starts your bankruptcy case.

Hey guys, you know you are offering credit terms to people who have demonstrated that they don't pay their bills.

I love the ones that say little or no money down starts your bankruptcy case.

Ha! Bad credit OK, I presume?

bankruptcy lawyers will be big soon, already getting there

How will they get their fees? :o Maybe it's more profitable to be the anti-bankruptcy lawyers who stick it to people under the new laws.

Can’t argue. Any high-income professional can be culpable of this

You are very enlightened. A memorable MBA session was when we had a guy come in and talked about 'shaking down some doctors' when he needed angel funding. Professionals are great targets because they have no idea what to ask. They totally get turned on by a flowery story.

BK lawyers get first dibs on the bankruptcy estate

Small businesses are funded in this order, the three Fs.

Family
Friends
Fools (the professionals)

BK lawyers get first dibs on the bankruptcy estate

Ooh, all $23.47 in the account. :)

OMG, I've got a story one of those BK lawyers told me. You know what some of those scumbags do? They get the client to pay them with a credit card and then add that credit card to the creditor list. I just remembered that story.

Yup, times change. Camaros were the greatest status symbol when I was in high school. Now I'm like, what the f@ck were we thinking? Man NM is like a time capsule, people here love those 80s American POSs. The emissions in this state are about the same as in the 80s. I'm getting headaches everytime we follow too closely, and they still smoke in restaurants.

Anyone who is familiar with the recent H1B crisis? It seems like the 2007 (or 2008) quota is already completely used up so lots of foreigners with job offers will need to leave.

The Congress seems to be reviewing a new proposal of lifting the cap of H1B by another 50,000 a year. How likely will such a bill go through?

Peter you might get your way. Looks like they are going to settle on a fee for work visa solution. $3500 per pop.

Malcom, I know you aren't ripping on Camaros. :o

Although 80's camaros (3rd gen) completely sucked from a body style standpoint. 1st generation rocked the hardest. A classic 60's RS or SS is a beautiful vehicle.

The Congress seems to be reviewing a new proposal of lifting the cap of H1B by another 50,000 a year. How likely will such a bill go through?

I am against all kinds of numerical quota. The market will let us know how many is enough.

However, the crisis means that many potential home-buyers will not be buying anymore. Oops. Spring bounce indeed. :twisted:

Peter you might get your way. Looks like they are going to settle on a fee for work visa solution. $3500 per pop.

Perhaps they should auction off the quota. The proceeds will go into the education system. :)

Malcolm Says:

> The other flaws that I see in boomers all the way
> down to the Ys is the failure to form lasting
> relationships.

The reason we have more Y’s with screwed up relationships is that we have more Boomers with screwed up relationships.

People tend to do what they saw growing up so if a kid grows up in Africa and watches Mom & Dad gather nuts and bugs to eat in the mud hut odds are that the kid will grow up and gather nuts and bugs and live in a mud hut…

If a kid grows up in Presidio Heights and watches Dad play dominos at the PU Club and watches Mom work on JLSF fundraisers he will probably grow up and play dominos at the PU Club while his wife works on JL fundraisers…

Most (but not all) the people I know who grew up in a screwed up divorced home have been divorced at least once while most (but not all) the people I know that grew up in a (at least appearing to the outside) normal home with parents still married are still married…

BAP, that is true although the Gila forest was gorgeous. Lots of tall healthy trees. The Indian cliff ruins were amazing.

The reason we have more Y’s with screwed up relationships is that we have more Boomers with screwed up relationships.

Right on, and I've thought that too. Why though are the boomers so screwed up when they had nice Leave it to Beaver families? I know that is a myth, and they had molesting priests and overbearing fathers but really, they had a better head start than the generations before them and the blew it. They just figured their parents were evil and tried to not be like them at all.

I had an 80 Capri in high school, and a 78 Camaro just after. I thought I was cool, I was wrong. To add to that in the early 90s we bought one of those Firebirds. It was that nice red color with T tops. It actually was a pretty cool car, but once you go from that to a well made foreign car you just can't go back. Once you go Jap you don't go back.

Baby Boomers- that is all true, and they were so promising with new ideas. I guess that's what I mean when I call them hypocrites. When they had to bear the costs they didn't promote blacks, oh they made a show of affirmative action and tried to make everyone else do it but they just became incredibly selfish and materialistic. They are the first generation to literally make sure that their heirs don't have an inheritance to build on. Only a baby boomer would come up with the concept of a reverse mortgage.

I think the Clintons are the poster children of baby boomers. Do onto others the way I say you should, never mind what I'm doing.

WWII generation raised the baby boomers, then often raised their children, and even their children in many cases only to be discarded when they were no longer useful. And all I hear from bably boomers is, what's going to happen to me when I get old? Who is going to support me? Only 1 in 10 has enough to retire on. They really are screw ups, and in typical fashion didn't care about anyone else but constantly whine about their own bleak future.

All the baby boomers could think about was how many people would be impressed with those hideous Cadillacs. OMG those are nausiating.

Brand,

Hmmm, that wasn't my impression but I'm not an engineer. My sense is that an engineer would not make as much as a marketing person of equal general ability, etc. I certainly felt my boyfriend was underpaid for his level of responsibility at his previous job.

I don't think the inequality between lawyer pay and engineer pay became evident until pretty recently. Didn't new associates get paid similar level as teachers in the 1960s? Now big NYC firms are paying first year associates $145-160K a year, equal to very senior engineers. That's a hell of a lot of money (even when divided by 2,500 billable hours a year) for people who are basically doing paralegal type work to start.

Jimbo,

I *may* have overstated how unfocused my boyfriend actually is -- he's very bright and pretty well adjusted, so things have always come easy to him. Now he's a bit burnt out and he's dragging his feet on what he wants to do next. I *may* be projecting some of my fears about him wasting his potential.

The Boomers had a rather self indulgent revolution against their parents' world, and boy did they let everyone know about it!

Now the Snowflakes think mommy and daddy made everything just perfect and they can be perfect and special as they are.

(Randy, I know I am a severe pessimist. You say America still has the entrepenerial spirit, but I see that becoming more and more crass; more about making money than building something lasting and long term. It feels like America has skid off the rails of Henry Ford and became a massive Enron funny money game.)

Malcolm Says:

> I have a 99 Boxster which is the same. Nothing
> handles like it, and it has that classic rounded
> sleek sportscar look which looks just like what
> James Dean wrapped around a tree.

Dean actually wrapped his 550 Spyder around a 1950 Ford…

Some PCA guys still drive out to the accident spot East of Paso Robles when they come up to events at Laguna Seca…

What kind of engineer is he astrid?

? Now big NYC firms are paying first year associates $145-160K a year, equal to very senior engineers.

The difference is that those first year associates will be working 209138720 hours a day, whereas the senior engineers will be working a mere 60 hours a week.

Also, those first year associates will have massive dry cleaning bills. :)

chem e and he doesn't want to go to med school (that, he is certain about)