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Oh slyfrog you always know just what to say! Please move into my guest room and teach me warhammer.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 11:56 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 09:02 |
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SlyFrog posted:Thanks, I appreciate it. To be clear, I've seen four psychiatrists over a little less than the last ten years. As a deteriorating anxiety ball, I'm honestly having the most trouble dealing with how I think people perceive me and the general cost of failure. I can't seem to let go of result anxiety as if there's anything I can realistically do (other than litigate competently) to affect the outcome of a case than what I'm already doing. There might be, but I don't have the training, the tutelage nor the resources to deliver a perfect performance. As a central personality trait, I constantly measure myself up to some platonic ideal of absolute perfection and naturally I always fall short, which I feel like I'm constantly waiting to be punished for. I know that's hosed up and unrealistic and that I can't do anything about it, but that doesn't stop me. What I'm learning is that all this mental stress is out of my control much like a broken leg won't work no matter how hard I might try. So, my plan is to change the only thing I can change, which is my circumstances. I plan to find a new job doing something where I have actual stability and a more predictable metric of success, change my personal habits back towards more healthy things and try to regain some measure of personal satisfaction in my professional life and my personal life. It sounds to me like you're already doing the needful things you have to to get better, and that your circumstances are changed and are changing for you either voluntarily or involuntarily. I've also been told that the deeper the pit has been dug, the longer it takes to climb out. To me, that says you're on the right trajectory towards whatever you need for your situation to improve and you're actively working towards improving it by making an effort in all sorts of directions. That means you're doing exactly what you should. Keep at trying, and remember to have patience with yourself because the road might be long. And if it all goes to poo poo there's always drug dealing.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 12:25 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:As a deteriorating anxiety ball, I'm honestly having the most trouble dealing with how I think people perceive me and the general cost of failure. I can't seem to let go of result anxiety as if there's anything I can realistically do (other than litigate competently) to affect the outcome of a case than what I'm already doing. There might be, but I don't have the training, the tutelage nor the resources to deliver a perfect performance. As a central personality trait, I constantly measure myself up to some platonic ideal of absolute perfection and naturally I always fall short, which I feel like I'm constantly waiting to be punished for. I know that's hosed up and unrealistic and that I can't do anything about it, but that doesn't stop me. Why would you go into drug dealing? It's just another oversaturated entry level market, and I think you already have the resources (isolated cabin) for a snitch disposal startup
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 13:22 |
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Hoshi posted:Why would you go into drug dealing? It's just another oversaturated entry level market, and I think you already have the resources (isolated cabin) for a snitch disposal startup Maybe I'll start keeping pigs.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 13:39 |
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You just need a wood chipper.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 13:41 |
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 14:00 |
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in this context is warhammer a euphemism for butt stuff
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 14:12 |
Soothing Vapors posted:in this context is warhammer a euphemism for butt stuff There is no other context, that's the plain meaning of the text
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 16:02 |
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Discendo Vox posted:There is no other context, that's the plain meaning of the text
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 16:40 |
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I want him to put a space marine in my rear end.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:13 |
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:I want him to put a space marine in my rear end. Oh you sweet, summer child. It's called a Powerfist.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:20 |
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SlyFrog posted:Oh you sweet, summer child. It's called a Powerfist. Chainfist seems more stimulating
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:26 |
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Hot Dog Day #91 posted:Honestly I would have let slyfrog move in with me so he could teach me warhammer. I've got the opposite issue. Read what you want, but only quality tabletop gaming in this household.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:37 |
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Career services emailed me about a state job posting about to go up. No benefit contract position at $23/hr. I interviewed at that state agency in the same office in May. They were paying $26/hr then.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 17:51 |
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Hey folks, look like I have a second round interview for an interesting in-house position coming up (not a typical corporate client but I'd not say more yet). For reference I'm a midlevel transactional associate at an NYC biglaw shop. Any tips on preparing for/what to expect in an interview for an in-house position, particularly one that's related to, but not directly in, my current practice area?
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 18:20 |
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JohnCompany posted:Hey folks, look like I have a second round interview for an interesting in-house position coming up (not a typical corporate client but I'd not say more yet). For reference I'm a midlevel transactional associate at an NYC biglaw shop. Any tips on preparing for/what to expect in an interview for an in-house position, particularly one that's related to, but not directly in, my current practice area? I don't have any tips but I would also love to see some responses to this.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:08 |
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Vox Nihili posted:I've got the opposite issue. Read what you want, but only quality tabletop gaming in this household. So only a bespoke D&D 3.5 in the Faerun setting with zero munchkin and railroading and quality writing from the DM? Same.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:19 |
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I think we had a tabletop rpg argument in here a year ago and I am ready and willing to explain how you, yes you, play badly and how the system I like is correct and good and objectively better for starters, any rpg released in the 2000s is trash and so is any homebrew based on it
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:24 |
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Bunch of nerds up in here. Now excuse me while I go play Dota 2.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:25 |
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My review company asked me to mail in my key until a new project comes online. At least I can get to work on my Netflix/Hulu/Amazon backlog.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:28 |
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mastershakeman posted:I think we had a tabletop rpg argument in here a year ago and I am ready and willing to explain how you, yes you, play badly and how the system I like is correct and good and objectively better I didn't need to go out even three years to prove you objectively wrong.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:35 |
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Nice piece of fish posted:
I assume that he's referring specifically to tabletop RPGs.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:46 |
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mastershakeman posted:I think we had a tabletop rpg argument in here a year ago and I am ready and willing to explain how you, yes you, play badly and how the system I like is correct and good and objectively better Additionally, if you disagree, then you are no true board gamer and actually hate the genre
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:55 |
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Toona the Cat posted:My review company asked me to mail in my key until a new project comes online. At least I can get to work on my Netflix/Hulu/Amazon backlog. hooray I'm not the only one unemployed.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 20:58 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:hooray I'm not the only one unemployed. I'm also technically unemployed, but I have described the story quite thoroughly and I also have freelance research and litigation projects, so
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 21:21 |
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Toona the Cat posted:My review company asked me to mail in my key until a new project comes online. At least I can get to work on my Netflix/Hulu/Amazon backlog. Oh my god it was all real, wasn't it?
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 21:36 |
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Vox Nihili posted:Oh my god it was all real, wasn't it? Toona has always been real, friend.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 21:37 |
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I really want Get Money to be real and replace Toona 3-4 yrs from now.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 21:43 |
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Look Sir Droids posted:I really want Get Money to be real and replace Toona 3-4 yrs from now. I have no doubt GET MONEY is real, too. We're all real, and we're all real dumb. I hate to say it because I think he's the worst of us all in here, but Throatwarbler is the smartest of the law students/recent grads if we go by job offers.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 21:44 |
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Look Sir Droids posted:I really want Get Money to be real and replace Toona 3-4 yrs from now. In 10 years GET MONEY will be here on the SomethingAwful VR forums (presented by Amazon Web Services) telling new hopefuls (outside the US, of course) about how he was totally on the fast track to partner until Trump outlawed the practice of law in 2025. Most of us will be dead by that point, of course.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 22:01 |
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mastershakeman posted:I think we had a tabletop rpg argument in here a year ago and I am ready and willing to explain how you, yes you, play badly and how the system I like is correct and good and objectively better Apocalypse World solved the riddle of how to design tabletop and all RPGs about being a law student must now be AW reskins and written in IRAC form.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 22:32 |
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Vox Nihili posted:Oh my god it was all real, wasn't it? Everything is real. You, me, Toona. Even Throatwarbler's emails...
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 22:40 |
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mastershakeman posted:Quite honestly, psychosomatic. Uncomfortable getting too into it but it's a lot closer to you than not. But my friends have all commented theyre shocked she's able to maintain disability for what appears to be anxiety manifesting in physical symptoms. I'm not kidding when I say I wish my wife could get on this somehow - yours is through work not SSDI right? Right, though they make you apply for anything else you can get (including SSDI) as a condition of it (as they obviously want to offset by anything they can). mastershakeman posted:Yeah you're in the exact same boat as my wife. Huge anxiety about how going back to full time work will physically kill her, then anxiety about not being able to afford our mortgage because I can't find a real job I completely understand this. Not exactly the same position, but comparable, because I worry that it's just me - there is no fall back. If I run out of money, there is no spouse who could work or pick up the slack. mastershakeman posted:You're welcome to come stay in my spare bedroom if you can put up with a toddler The real question is whether the toddler could put up with me.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 23:23 |
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yronic heroism posted:Apocalypse World solved the riddle of how to design tabletop and all RPGs about being a law student must now be AW reskins and written in IRAC form. Roll 2d6+Sperg. On a 10+, join big law, get a divorce, then kill yourself. On a 7-9, join small law, suffer financial ruin, then kill yourself. On a miss, post the emails. Of course Sperg rolls are normalized on a bell curve so there's a 90% chance of landing in the middle irrespective of intelligence or effort.
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# ? Aug 27, 2018 23:23 |
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Mr. Nice! posted:I have no doubt GET MONEY is real, too. We're all real, and we're all real dumb. My grades sucked(slightly above median), my work history had a lot of difficult to explain problems, I'm generally not a good interviewer(boy did I have some bad interviews) and I struck out completely in NY. Ultimately what saved me was that I knew going in my odds weren't good, and applied to every single market I could find, even really insular ones like CA, the PNW and SE, *and* came up with a reasonable story for why I wanted that market when I had no ties, and swallowed my pride and continued to cold-email people despite the first few efforts failing spectacularly - that TLS thread about networking really works, just be a little less goony than me and run stuff by career services before sending it out. Classmates with better stats than me struck out because they were too confident in getting a job in their preferred market and ignored other markets until it was too late. Ultimately I was literally the only person from my class to end up in this market(a friend got an offer too, but had better stats and better offers) where very few alumni worked - Just out of curiosity I went through the websites of all the big local firms and even solo practitioners and there are likely less than 10 (probably less than 5) alumni working in this market in total. I wasn't trolling when I said Career Services asked me to do a talk on the experience because none of the firms/offices in that market has ever come to OCI at my school and it just wasn't on anyone's radar. Even the recruiting person at the firm was really curious as to how I even found them and asked me a lot of questions about it, which I strongly suspect she didn't ask of the other summers who mostly had ties to the area and/or came from regional lower T14s or local schools with a strong presence in the market and a lot of alumni already at the firm. TL;DR: Sometimes it works out if you try like hell but it's mostly still just dumb luck. Don't go to law school, probably.
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# ? Aug 28, 2018 00:56 |
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Vox Nihili posted:Oh my god it was all real, wasn't it? So cripplingly real.
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# ? Aug 28, 2018 01:10 |
it's absolutely insane that you've transitioned to "Actually, my career search was so successful the career office says I'm the coolest." post the email;s
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# ? Aug 28, 2018 01:19 |
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New interview rule: ask about the chosen people
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# ? Aug 28, 2018 02:47 |
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Vox Nihili posted:In 10 years GET MONEY will be here on the SomethingAwful VR forums (presented by Amazon Web Services) telling new hopefuls (outside the US, of course) about how he was totally on the fast track to partner until Trump outlawed the practice of law in 2025. Lol like lowtax is ever going to update the forums.
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# ? Aug 28, 2018 03:03 |
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# ? Jun 5, 2024 09:02 |
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Throatwarbler posted:My grades sucked(slightly above median), my work history had a lot of difficult to explain problems, I'm generally not a good interviewer(boy did I have some bad interviews) and I struck out completely in NY. Ultimately what saved me was that I knew going in my odds weren't good, and applied to every single market I could find, even really insular ones like CA, the PNW and SE, *and* came up with a reasonable story for why I wanted that market when I had no ties, and swallowed my pride and continued to cold-email people despite the first few efforts failing spectacularly - that TLS thread about networking really works, just be a little less goony than me and run stuff by career services before sending it out. Classmates with better stats than me struck out because they were too confident in getting a job in their preferred market and ignored other markets until it was too late.
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