Law Grad Successfully Flogs His Degree
Remember this guy’s story back in March…?
He posted an advert on the classified site, Craigslist, in an attempt to sell his degree for ‘$59,250 or best offer‘.
Inevitably the advert attracted attention from other lawyers; one legal website, Simple Justice, described the advert as the “manifesto of a loser”. Another, Above the Law, managed to get an interview with him shortly after the advert was posted in which he told them:
The best offer was from a documentary filmmaker who offered to give me $50 to piss on my diploma and then set it on fire. Unless I get something better I’ll probably accept this offer.
Well, he can put his Zippo away; he got a better offer.
ATL: Amazingly, a Plaintiff’s lawyer from Southern California purchased my law degree for 10% of the asking price, $592.50. I mailed it to him about a month ago after he sent me the check.
The generous purchaser decided that the post was funny and the best lawyer bashing he’d seen. You may wish to excuse the seller’s maths but his current occupation would appear to do that for him:
ATL: Now I´m traveling nomadically abroad trying to recover from years surrounded by drone a-hole lawyers. My therapy includes sitting my ass on a beach for at least eight billable hours a day, drinking cheap beer, and doing absolutely nothing. The $592.50 will buy me at least 750 beers in the poor ass countries I’m traveling through, but in an effort to subsidize my drinking even more I´m taking donations via Pay Pal from anyone who would like to donate to a worthy cause. ATL readers can send their donations of 75 cents (the typical cost of a beer in a third world country) via Pay Pal to lawyerssuck00@hotmail.com. I can’t promise anything in return, but I may think of the donor trapped in an office wasting his/her life away billing hours while I sip on a cold beer on the beach.
Hugs and kisses to all the lawyers out there,
Lawyerssuck00
April 22, 2010
He might be having a great time now but what happens when he gets back to reality and wakes up with a year long hangover and no job.
April 22, 2010
Mia, reading your comment, it seems to me that he has managed to escape exactly the thing you think he should be tying himself to. A law career can be a good thing if that is what you want. If it is not it can be totally soul destroying, believe me I’ve seen it. With some experience under his belt and time on his hands he might discover something he genuinely wants to return for. In the meantime it sounds like he is where many of us would actually rather be.
April 22, 2010
Given the current climate for jobs, even if he comes back in a years time he will probably be in no worse a situation.