Sounds like a good combination of occupations. If you could get a paycheck from the marijuana company, the twinky company and the video game company for testing their products, you'd be all set.

Of course today, they effectively get the same thing, it's just that the check comes from the government.

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Occupational hazards---every job has them.
Construction--whether doing the work, or inspecting has a high rate of injury/death.

Would you believe even musicians?---Bassoonists, reportedly, suffer a higher than average rate of aneurisms. Tuba player have a higher than average rate of jaw issues.

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I bet pole dancers have lots of back issues....

Lawyers can help you collect if your medical care is negligent and you suffer permanent disabilities because of it, so I'll pass on Tort reform, thank you.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

A drunk driver plows into you while you're in a crosswalk. He's unrepentent, and his insurance company tells you to pound sand when you ask for the cost of a prosthetic leg. Your move?

This: At best, they are necessary evil

Just dont expect me to feel sorry for them when their conscience starts catching up to them mid life and they start offing themselves.

a profession way too glorified in movies on tv in books. they create nothing and make life & business much harder to negotiate.

The Noble Bard said it best "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

yeah, I know that was his back handed compliment to law & order..

Theirs is an ancient and noble profession. Not all are scumbags. I know personally probably more than a dozen. One was actually a scumbag but he also was an alcoholic and eventually fell asleep in his favorite chair drunk with a cigarette and burned himself and the house up. Actually I am not certain that the profession actually attracts any more scumbags than any other but if you go to court and lose you tend to think of the opposing lawyer as a scumbag or evil person.

I know some that are pretty incompetent but again, I am not sure if that is any more true than any other profession.

I can think of several professions which attract more scumbags in my experience....used cars? .....real estate?

I have professional relationships with several depending on what the need is. The one I use for my everyday stuff tends to talk me out of suing folks a lot, which is a very useful function. ...though I am not nearly as eager to do so in the last fifteen years or so, having gone into situations in the past feeling all righteous and indignant and finding the judge just doesn't care about what I feel.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I have never wanted to sue anyone...can't relate to that...

The Bill of Rights recognizes the right to counsel, essentially it's the only private profession sanctioned by our Founding Fathers.

Back to the original post, a lot of those guys had typical family, financial, medical and criminal problems that many non lawyers also have and who take their lives. The one guy who hadn't filed his income tax return for 10 years? Another practicing law without a state license?

High stress profession. Much, much worse if you are a sole practitioner.

Maybe Kentucky ought to raise its standards for granting law licenses ....or ask for DNA samples to screen?

Goodness. That's a whole lot of prejudice right there.

Absolutely none of the reasons you assert caused me to become a lawyer, and the same may be said of the colleagues and classmates I knew best. Yes, there were a few who were doing nothing but chasing ambulances and the money they represented, but they were a distinct minority.

That said, I hope you never find yourself in need of a lawyer. With your level of prejudice and distrust, you'd be a horrible client.

Well said Tx!

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Maybe you've never been in business and done work for someone and not been paid, or been a landlord and a deadbeat moves in and gives you an 1800 dollar bad check.

Gotta sue just to get the deadbeat out.

But if you've never been in that situation you might feel superior in never needing one of those sccumbag lawyers.

Or you could just let folks screw you out of the money.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

I don't remember details, but some years ago, I remember seeing an article that involved an accidental discovery that came from a study of some sort. They actually came up with a formula that involved the ratio of lawyers:engineers. In countries where the lawyers outweighed the engineers, the GDP per capita was lower than when it was the other way around.

More engineers means more productivity. More lawyers mean more of just stirring the money around as opposed to production. I guess if the numbers were to work today, they would have to measure only the EMPLOYED engineers.

It was quite interesting.

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Owned my own business, aviation parts & repair, just never needed to sue anyone. Don't feel superior, its just the luck of the draw, ergo my comment. You guys sure are sensitive today. TBS, I still think most lawyers are shysters, even my friends who are in the profession and I know quite a few... we just focus on other things in life other than work...