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Every now and then an anguished howl will yammer across [[LinkedIn]] signalscape, as | Every now and then an anguished howl will yammer across [[LinkedIn]] signalscape, as | ||
some well-meaning [[thought leader]] or other — or sometimes an anonymous self -organising autonomous collective of juniors — lights touchpaper | some well-meaning [[thought leader]] or other — or sometimes an anonymous self -organising autonomous collective of juniors — lights touchpaper to the topic of the grisly working conditions for young commercial lawyers and a predictable dumpster fire woofs, explodes and quickly burns out when people connect their senses, or get distracted by the next bauble, or whatever motivates the herd these days on the [[Onworld]] | ||
“It cannot be right,” they wail, “in our enlightened times, to torture out younglings so. Fourteen hours a day! Sometimes more! They are not up to it. It will crush them. We must be humane.” | “It cannot be right,” they wail, “in our enlightened times, to torture out younglings so. Fourteen hours a day! Sometimes more! They are not up to it. It will crush them. We must be humane.” | ||
There will then follow a long and tiring diatribe about the fragile | There will then follow a long and tiring diatribe about the fragile psychiatric disposition of the upcoming generation. It will culminate in robust accord that we must all, at every opportunity, speak loudly and at [[tedious]] length about our own astral vulnerabilities, end the stigma of being seen to gabble incessantly about our stigmas. | ||
The [[JC]] will spare you his usual Nietzschean quotes about [[military life]], apposite though they are: there is nothing quite like a good old “shoeing” at the bottom of the ruck every now and then to | The [[JC]] will spare you his usual Nietzschean quotes about [[military life]], apposite though they are: there is nothing quite like a good old “shoeing” at the bottom of the ruck every now and then to stouten a young attorney’s fibre. It builds a kind of resilience that moaning about your lot on [[LinkedIn]] never will. | ||
A better question is this: what sort of person regards any part of the big law military industrial complex | A better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the big law military industrial complex — even it's fluffy downy underbelly — with even the tiniest twinge of affection or sympathy? Would you cuddle a polar bear? | ||
What do you think happens to those cute little Kirkland & Ellis associates when they grow up? Have you not seen ''Stranger Things''? | |||
This is not the Russian front. These poor little lambs were not conscripted, press-ganged, nor marched at gunpoint down to the recruitment office. They have spent some years clambering over each other to get that clerkship. They are motivated to this penury. It is part of their plan. | This is not the Russian front. These poor little lambs were not conscripted, press-ganged, nor marched at gunpoint down to the recruitment office. They have spent some years clambering over each other to get that clerkship. They are motivated to this penury. It is part of their plan. | ||