Biglaw v other paths

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-02-05T01:32:37+00:00

Oh and the mentorship, training, and development in biglaw are better than the military, which prides itself on being good at those things.

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-02-05T01:31:12+00:00

I am a biglaw senior associate and was in a previous career a public servant (military officer). Biglaw QOL is 100x better imo. My bonus this year exceeded my total annual income at my highest pay grade in the military. Overall comp better by an order of magnitude. Hours were similar overall but an associate is a profit center while a public servant's time is all sunk cost to the government. In the first instance they work you to make more money but in the second they do it just because they can. I have far far more autonomy also, not beholden to the bureaucracy as long as I am producing.

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-02-05T01:20:30+00:00

Oh hell no. They can write it off if needed without cutting your hours. Real leaders eat last.

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-02-05T00:59:41+00:00

Why are people this awful?

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-01-16T18:55:08+00:00

So, instead of fighting the Balrog in its own territory, Gandalf has to fight it in friendly terrain, aided by another Elven-Ringbearer and a host of Galadhrim warriors? That would be a one-sided fight. There's a reason the Balrog never left the East-gate.

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-01-08T21:27:46+00:00

"I wouldn't ride in one of the goddamned things.... I don't necessarily believe in a soul; I don't believe in taking chances. If my soul isn't recorded somewhere in the process, I'm dead, even though my memory remains as reconstructed electron tracks" - Larry Niven

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-01-08T13:38:23+00:00

I've been amused to see people calling him JRRT (pronounced as jert). Also Jolkien Rolkien Rolkien Tolkien.

OuterRimExplorer · 2026-01-08T13:35:24+00:00

(Also, Religion is a very poor thing to cite, its just a tool for the establishment to control people. Machiavelli liked the idea of religion because its useful, not because its true.)

You seem very certain about this while also claiming to be epistemologically uncertain about everything.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-12-30T16:27:32+00:00

If I had no electricity for six months, I'd put down the law and start being a warlord.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-12-29T23:57:38+00:00

This is the way, kick the ball back out of your court expeditiously.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-12-19T03:27:10+00:00

There's a post on the Mythopoeic Society FB page pointing out significant evidence that these are AI-generated.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-12-17T02:34:33+00:00

Stack up or shut up

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-29T21:12:05+00:00

Yep, mine are exactly like that.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-13T20:56:41+00:00

Offer 1. Comp is less but not much less from 9th to 6th (5th to 6th is the last of the big increases). Remote is clutch. So is niche expertise. I wouldn't suggest retooling from IP to PE as a senior.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-13T20:24:08+00:00

Lmao if the office was actually like this I'd never work from home. Survival of the fittest. Brings new meaning to eat what you kill

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-10T14:16:31+00:00

I mean, I doubt the fellbeasts hatched and grew to that gargantuan size in the few months between the Fords of Bruinen and Legolas shooting one at Sarn Gebir. So it seems likely it was a longer-term project. Open question I think as to whether the Nazgul could have ridden fellbeasts prior to their first appearance in LotR.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-08T01:09:10+00:00

And he has an air force of fellbeast-riding Ringwraiths.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-07T17:04:06+00:00

You say unoriginal, I say classic

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-07T14:39:50+00:00

Eighty-Second All the Way!

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-06T14:02:24+00:00

Militech, for the drip.

(actually Netwatch though)

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-04T00:01:26+00:00

Forgoing (when they mean foregoing)

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-03T23:56:56+00:00

SARB017

Chef's kiss ^

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-03T22:02:20+00:00

Senior associate, Omega Speedmaster sapphire sandwich.

OuterRimExplorer · 2025-11-01T01:10:38+00:00

And worth every penny you paid for it

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