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Look, kids: keeping schtum about your frailties isn’t a ''travesty''. It’s ''common sense''. It’s ''personal branding 101''. ''It is what people do''. | Look, kids: keeping schtum about your frailties isn’t a ''travesty''. It’s ''common sense''. It’s ''personal branding 101''. ''It is what people do''. | ||
The [[JC]] will spare | The [[JC]] will spare his usual [[Nietzsche|Nietzschean]] quotes about [[military life]], apposite though they are: suffice to say, there is nothing quite like a good “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 whining about mental health on [[LinkedIn]] never will. | ||
In any case, a better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the [[Magic circle law firm|big law military industrial complex]] — even its front-line of callow inductees — with even a twinge of sympathy? The same sorts of people who would cuddle polar bears, that’s who. They don’t tend to last long. | In any case, a better question is this: what sort of person regards ''any part'' of the [[Magic circle law firm|big law military industrial complex]] — even its front-line of callow inductees — with even a twinge of sympathy? The same sorts of people who would cuddle polar bears, that’s who. They don’t tend to last long. | ||
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The Harvard Law School careers office is not the Russian front. These poor little lambs were not conscripted, press-ganged, nor marched at gunpoint down to barracks at Latham & Watkins. | The Harvard Law School careers office is not the Russian front. These poor little lambs were not conscripted, press-ganged, nor marched at gunpoint down to barracks at Latham & Watkins. | ||
To the contrary, these little blighters spent years clambering over each other to get to where they are now. This was their one goal, their guiding, blinding light. ''These people are trained killers''. They ''eat'' the weak. They are ''motivated'' to this penury. They ''want'' it. They understand, the way LinkedIn grandees seem not to, that ''[[Military school of life|what does not kill you makes you stronger]]''. Oh, dear: | To the contrary, these little blighters spent years clambering over each other to get to where they are now. This was their one goal, their guiding, blinding light. ''These people are trained killers''. They ''eat'' the weak. They are ''motivated'' to this penury. They ''want'' it. They understand, the way LinkedIn grandees seem not to, that ''[[Military school of life|what does not kill you makes you stronger]]''. Oh, dear: we promised to spare the [[Nietzsche]] quotes, didn’t we. | ||
Five years of trench warfare is ''part of their plan''. | Five years of trench warfare is ''part of their plan''. | ||