Middle School Playground

[WTMHouston]

I suppose I had that coming.....<g>

But, that said, you would be surprised how cheap some of those folks in jail are (here and for real).

I agree that starting salaries in the low six figure range for a fish just out of law school at the largest civil firms is insane. However, only the top one to two percent actually get those jobs. The vast majority make far less starting out. But, it is what the market is bearing right now. I suspect that as the economy continues to cool, the pace of growth in those starting salaries will cool as well. I also suspect that we are likely close to the conditions in the 80s when lawyers were being laid off because business was cooling off. It typically lags a bit behind the economy.

I have no problems with the hourly rate for mechanics. Frankly, the good ones are underpaid. I do however have a problem when some shops do work that was not really necessary -- at that happens a lot more than most folks realize. FWIW, I have the same problem when lawyers do it -- and there is too much of it there too.

Mechanics won't work unless they are paid. Lawyers are no different. Thus, it is not avarice for me to proclaim that I desire to be shown the money as a predicate for my services -- which much of the time I do think are worth many ounces (and in some cases pounds and kilos) of gold. The only time I actually get paid in gold, however, is when seized property is returned and the seized property was gold. Some of it gets very gaudy.




Troy