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Post by Dr_OIT » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:03 am

melmelcoolj wrote:This is a great thread:

1. I have always wanted to be a writer of short stories/novels. But I guess I am not too psyched about the "starving" part.
2. A comedy writer for talk shows.
3. A film or TV show producer/director/screenwriter. I actually tried to be an assistant producer for an animation company for a while. But that job was menial, and the boss was an absolute dictator who gave me no creative venue. My basic responsibility was to make excel spreadsheets.
4. A journalist that focuses on war/battlefields.

Even till this day, I am still dreaming about 1,2,3. But one gotta dream a little, right?
Happy to see someone else with similar interests! Can I ask what practice area you're think of going into, and is it at all related?

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Re: You're going to LS, but what did you REALLY want to do?

Post by jingosaur » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:12 am

Professional athlete or rich guy who makes investments in things here and there. I grew up wanting to be a doctor but then I didn't like science classes and I didn't want to make decisions that could result in life or death.

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Re: You're going to LS, but what did you REALLY want to do?

Post by BlendedUnicorn » Mon Mar 27, 2017 12:15 am

I would have stayed in the Army if it weren't for family/gf concerns. For the most part I'm happy and law school has been good to me but every now and then I get very frustrated that I left that path.

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Post by yyyuppp » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:46 am

completely average left-handed reliever on a major league baseball team. throw 40 innings over the summer make like 5 million dollars a year. can't beat it.

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Post by laqueredup » Mon Mar 27, 2017 1:56 am

HuntedUnicorn wrote:I would have stayed in the Army if it weren't for family/gf concerns. For the most part I'm happy and law school has been good to me but every now and then I get very frustrated that I left that path.
Military life has its downsides since it's built around that idea of the 1950s family following you around everywhere. Luckily I've been able to accomplish most of the things I wanted to do before leaving. I'm sure I'll still miss some aspects of it though.

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Post by heythatslife » Mon Mar 27, 2017 2:11 am

Scrounge up enough money to buy a plot of vineyard somewhere. Or failing that, a wine shop.

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Re: You're going to LS, but what did you REALLY want to do?

Post by melmelcoolj » Mon Mar 27, 2017 6:30 am

Dr_OIT wrote:
melmelcoolj wrote:This is a great thread:

1. I have always wanted to be a writer of short stories/novels. But I guess I am not too psyched about the "starving" part.
2. A comedy writer for talk shows.
3. A film or TV show producer/director/screenwriter. I actually tried to be an assistant producer for an animation company for a while. But that job was menial, and the boss was an absolute dictator who gave me no creative venue. My basic responsibility was to make excel spreadsheets.
4. A journalist that focuses on war/battlefields.

Even till this day, I am still dreaming about 1,2,3. But one gotta dream a little, right?
Happy to see someone else with similar interests! Can I ask what practice area you're think of going into, and is it at all related?
Ah, sadly, no. I am probably selling my soul in BigLaw. I know I wouldn't be able to write when I work in BigLaw, but I am hoping maybe I can write a little right now and maybe during 2L and 3L. What about you? Are you going to a related area?

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Re: You're going to LS, but what did you REALLY want to do?

Post by Dr_OIT » Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:20 am

melmelcoolj wrote:
Dr_OIT wrote:
melmelcoolj wrote:This is a great thread:

1. I have always wanted to be a writer of short stories/novels. But I guess I am not too psyched about the "starving" part.
2. A comedy writer for talk shows.
3. A film or TV show producer/director/screenwriter. I actually tried to be an assistant producer for an animation company for a while. But that job was menial, and the boss was an absolute dictator who gave me no creative venue. My basic responsibility was to make excel spreadsheets.
4. A journalist that focuses on war/battlefields.

Even till this day, I am still dreaming about 1,2,3. But one gotta dream a little, right?
Happy to see someone else with similar interests! Can I ask what practice area you're think of going into, and is it at all related?
Ah, sadly, no. I am probably selling my soul in BigLaw. I know I wouldn't be able to write when I work in BigLaw, but I am hoping maybe I can write a little right now and maybe during 2L and 3L. What about you? Are you going to a related area?
I hope to. Ideally, the long-term plan is to go in-house at a media/entertainment company, after first putting in a few years in BigLaw or MidLaw that has some relevant practice area and/or industry (so ideally, Entertainment Transactions. Or IP transactions, M&A, or even IP lit or employment). By IP, I mean, of course, copyright/trademark/licensing, bc papa got no science background for (or interest in) patent prosecution. Ideal market is NYC, with LA as a potential second.

I don't have a visceral need to write, but I hope it might be possible to teach as an adjunct prof later in (or in the middle of) my career -- and maybe even produce.

Feel free to tell me I'm crazy :). (Who knows, I might just end up at a lit firm or doing PI)

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Post by cam1992 » Mon Mar 27, 2017 10:44 am

1) Food network star/Chopped champion/restaurant owner
2) Congressional director of communications
3) State department foreign service officer

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Post by FamilyLawEsq » Mon Mar 27, 2017 11:02 am

Now that I am 5 years away from retirement, what I really want to do is be a ranger or drive the beer cart at a golf course.

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Post by slurp » Mon Mar 27, 2017 7:20 pm

Capt_Beatty wrote:As a kid I wanted to be an adult actor, but I was too young.

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Post by Hogwartsexpress » Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:09 am

slurp wrote:
Capt_Beatty wrote:As a kid I wanted to be an adult actor, but I was too young.

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lol when you say adult actor clarify :shock:

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Post by acr440 » Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:16 am

If college debt didnt exist I would have loved to spend my gap year as a storm chaser rather than being a paralegal.

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Post by zot1 » Tue Mar 28, 2017 11:26 am

College football coach.

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A billionaire playboy

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Post by dietcoke1 » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:27 pm

own an nba team

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The guy that sits at the end of the court during NBA games and mops the sweat off the floor.

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Post by Thomas Hagan, ESQ. » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:34 pm

dietcoke1 wrote:own an nba team
Wait..you can very much still do this haha

Which would you own: Kings or Nets

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Post by dietcoke1 » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:37 pm

Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:
dietcoke1 wrote:own an nba team
Wait..you can very much still do this haha

Which would you own: Kings or Nets
I suppose I could but its not looking very likely lol.

I think at this point I would take the Kings with their brand new arena and dump Vlade so I could be the new president of b ball operations. I can't imagine that I would be any worse than him

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Post by Thomas Hagan, ESQ. » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:40 pm

dietcoke1 wrote:
Thomas Hagan, ESQ. wrote:
dietcoke1 wrote:own an nba team
Wait..you can very much still do this haha

Which would you own: Kings or Nets
I suppose I could but its not looking very likely lol.

I think at this point I would take the Kings with their brand new arena and dump Vlade so I could be the new president of b ball operations. I can't imagine that I would be any worse than him
True, but you'd be in Sacramento...Barclay's Center is pretty brand new too!

Except that 0 First Round Draft picks until 2020 is a bit of a deal-breaker.

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Post by chili_davis » Tue Mar 28, 2017 2:48 pm

Tennis ball retriever on the pro circuit...or possibly the first TLS'er to create better ****ing emojis for this site? What is this, 1997?

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Post by Hobbesy » Wed Mar 29, 2017 1:05 pm

Own and run my own hostel/travel blogger.

In my mind this is still happening, just not for some years

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Post by OnlyHumean » Wed Mar 29, 2017 3:00 pm

I would really have loved to be a Librarian / Conservator at one of the Great Libraries; Radcliffe, Bodleian, Codrington, Wren, Christ Church, Longwall, British Library, Library of Congress, Peabody, etc. etc.

Or a professional philosopher, split between teaching and research.

The thing is most of my "dream jobs" involve not just a position, but a position at a particular place or institution - somewhere old, and grand, and beautiful. Perhaps it's a symptom of coming from a relatively young country. I don't think I'd find the job alone stisfying enough if it wasn't connected to some such place.

Law School doesn't necessarily mean the end of either of those paths (though perhaps it is a rather expensive detour) but I think now I think mostly about retiring relatively young and spending (read: wasting) all my money restoring some dilapidated Early Modern chateau in the French countryside. Perhaps farming the land around it too.

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Post by us3rnam3 » Wed Mar 29, 2017 5:22 pm

I wanted to be a social worker until i realized they get paid nothing

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Post by sfn91 » Wed Mar 29, 2017 11:09 pm

Professional orator or debater. Lol.

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