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- From: srm@world.std.com (Stevens R Miller)
- Subject: Re: Actual lawyers on this group?
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- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Nov13.220225.9737@hellgate.utah.edu> <bhayden.721866398@teal> <92322.040513AZ7408A@auvm.american.edu> <bhayden.722009530@teal>
- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 02:43:45 GMT
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- bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
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- >Aimee J. Zeltzer <AZ7408A@auvm.american.edu> writes:
-
- >> Can I tell you? My goal in life as I near the end of my law
- >> school career is to dissuade any and all creative or intersting types
- >>who are not anal retentive from going into law.
- >>Right now I am working in
- >>a patent office and I could just die!!
-
- >Its not allways that bad. Also, the attention to detail is no worse
- >and probably not as important than in programming. I can see though
- >that a stint in the PTO could be mind numbing.
-
- I agree, Bruce. I went to law school to *escape* from the tedium that
- programming has become (my own fault; I chased the money, not the
- science). Still, I have a lucky outcome: Since I have to keep my
- day job to make enough to pay the rent, my license gets used to do
- pro bono work. No money in that, but I pick what I do, and I enjoy
- it.
- --
- Stevens R. Miller J.D.
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