Aye. In my 1L class (one year before you), less than 1/3 of us were working full time.

I just about smacked one guy at the start of summer school (he’d been not working during 1L but had a full time externship during the summer) when he showed up in class whining about how tired he was.

I guess what I’m fumbling is that there are times in our life when we confuse what we want with what we think we need. I think I wanted to stay in Oregon, but I needed to live somewhere else. I kept on measuring the distance between here and there and especially when I needed to add a comma, the number became too much. But now that number is just speculation on what could have been, what stories I could be telling, what pictures could be on my wall, what I know I could now do. I don’t have that.

Your decisions are your own, but never sell yourself short from an experience that can alter you for the better.

Just my unrequested, slightly tarnished two cents.

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Don’t take my word for it, though, look up the CSPAN coverage of the Senate banking committee’s latest hearing on the auto bailout. The CEO’s of the big 3 actually stood up for Ron Gettelfinger and the UAW, to the chagrin of Tennessee Senator Corker, whose response to every piece of information presented to him was a variation on “The only way to resolve this is for the UAW to take a big haircut.” When the CEOs are satisfied that the workers have made every sacrifice they can for the sake of saving the companies, it’s time to look for other places to make cuts.

The analysts CNN refers to are glossing over that the wage disparities they cite are cherry-picked examples, which are not representative of the industry as a whole. The wage-parity regulation they mention would actually require GM, Chrysler, and Ford to give UAW workers a pay increase in several states.

CNN also fails to mention that the GOP Senators leading the campaign to force more concessions from the UAW come from states in the South with foreign automakers’ plants. The push to force the UAW to take pay cuts has nothing to do with making sure that the big 3 are bringing costs under control and protecting the taxpayers’ investment. It’s about discouraging workers at foreign auto plants in their states from joining the UAW. The sticking point isn’t short-sighted, pig-headed union members, it’s an ideological determination to undermine collective bargaining. It’s no coincidence that what these Senators keep advocating is for the big 3 to file for chapter 11 bankruptcy, wherein the judge could modify the terms of the existing contracts without the union’s consent.

Of course, I’m talking about the new puppy.

She’s so damn personable, why isn’t that a leadership quality? Sheeyeah.