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The Kind of Lawyer I Want To Want To Be | | | I am considering trading a career of glitz and glamour for one as an outcast. While this is a bit unsettling, I would be willing to make this trade if it is for something I am truly passionate about. But I am not sure what I care about just yet. I am in a state of limbo. I will spend my remaining time in law school searching for the right opportunity, figuring out what I truly care about, and learning the skills to eventually make a difference in the world. In the end, it may be that what I care about most isn’t a particular problem in society, but rather the people around me. I wonder if I might be satisfied effectuating change for the people I most care about, rather than for society as a whole. This might be the only thing that I would risk my life for. | |
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> | I think this rewrite improves the clarity and force of the
statement, at the expense of realism. You're not actually
considering life as an outcast, Elie. Nor should you.
You're asking how you can add an acute sense of social
outcomes, maybe even a commitment to social justice, to
the work of supporting yourself in the style to which you
want to become accustomed.
Your current draft says, basically, that if a world-moving
passion showed up, you'd follow it anywhere. But that's
not the temperament you consider yourself to have. Anyone
could say that the world is well lost for love, and that
in response to a Grand Passion they'd abandon it all for
life on the beach with the object of their adoration. But
in general the world adopts satisficing monogamy and finds
itself living, Babbit-like, with gentle but ultimate
disillusion.
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| Revision 5 | r5 - 18 Jun 2013 - 15:46:14 - EbenMoglen |
| Revision 4 | r4 - 07 Apr 2013 - 22:34:06 - ElieT |
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