If you’ve noticed, I haven’t been blogging much lately. Why, you ask? Eh, probably not, but I’ll tell you anyway.

I’ve been working at my ‘fall back’ job. Yes, you know how people always tell us folks with very expensive, we don’t use them, but are still paying for them educations — oh, but if things get bad — you always have a fall back. Don’t worry things aren’t bad. The truth is the housing renovation is killing me (I mean how much hammering and sawing can any one person take) and I desparately wanted to do something fun and challenging — well, that didn’t work out.

Now, while I believe that the ‘fall back’ is inherently untrue — I’m trying out some legal temporary work.

Well, it turns out that for a pittance I too can engage in brain numbing (yes, my dog Foley could do it) work — that pays more than typing for Kelly Services.

I’m currently ‘reviewing documents’ with two other folks trying to get out of the law profession. It’s fairly interesting that everywhere I go, I meet droves and droves of people who went to law school blindly and are now ready to get out — no matter if they are facing unemployment, loans, and no way of paying their mortgage.

I’ve moved way off blogging — but the question remains, how do we make better decisions going forward. Should we encourage others to make better decisions? Every time an acquaintance mentions that their kid wants to go to law school — I give them my card, e-mail, and phone number — because I think if I can save them $100,000 and a lot of grief — it would be worth it. Yet no one has ever called. Is it because we see what we want to see — or because our poor choices are validated as acceptable, even desirable?

Hard to say, but I must go now and put on my rubber fingers. I have documents to flip through.

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