Lex Anteinternet: Unsolicited Career Advice No. 1: Plan for life

Monday, October 3, 2011

Unsolicited Career Advice No. 1: Plan for life

For those high school aged kids, or college kids, pondering their career choices.

Fist a caveat. I'm not a career coach, and have no business being one. I'm not certain that I've ever listed to my own career advice.

Anyhow, in planning a future career, most people sort of vaguely imagine the first ten years of it, maybe. Maybe they only generally envision the career.

Try to imagine yourself 20 or 30 years into the career. Indeed, try to imagine yourself married, with a couple of kids, having worked it for two or three decades. Does it still sound interesting to you? Why? Do you really know anyone in that position. That is, really know them, not casually know them. If so, talk to them and see what they have to say about it.

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Our answer to the question was: "The intent of this blog is to try to explore and learn a few things about the practice of law prior to the current era. That is, prior to the internet, prior to easy roads, and the like. How did it work, how regional was it, how did lawyers perceive their roles, and how were they perceived?"

We also noted: "Part of the reason for this, quite frankly, has something to do with minor research for a very slow moving book."

All of this is still true, but the focus of the blog has changed somewhat. It now focuses on the era from 1890 to 1920 in general, rather than on the law and lawyers specifically, although that may be far from obvious. It's also become the location where we comment on anything we feel moved to comment on.

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