After several years of practicing law with a bunch of nerds in Silicon Valley I have come to the conclusion that my law degree is useless and I don't want to be a lawyer anymore. Though I spent over $100,000 on it I am willing to sell it for the bargain basement price of $59,250, which is the current value of my remaining student loan balance.
This priceless collectible will permit you to be surrounded by hobby-less assholes whose entire life is dictated by billing by the hour and being anal dickheads. Additionally, this piece of paper has the amazing ability to keep you from doing what you really want to do in life, all in the name of purported prestige and financial success. Finally, girls in the Marina will swoon with retarded thoughts of sugar daddy when they hear you went to XXX prestigious law school and are a lawyer.
Act now as supplies are limited and this crap takes three years to make. DISCLAIMER: this piece of shit isn't even written in English. It's in Latin or something, but I have the translation. It says "Haha. We took your tuition money bitch, now suck it. Sincerely, President of the University"
Added Bonus: It's from one of those elitist BS institutions that accept people like George W. Bush cause their daddy donated $20 million i.e. Cornell, Penn, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Duke, Tijuana Tech, etc. Instead of donating $20 million you can have it for the low low price of $59,250 or best offer.
This is actually a serious post. I will really sell this piece of shit.
The current bid is $102.50. Too much if you ask me.
UPDATE: Lawyers Against The Law School Scam has posted the lawyer's followup comments in an interview with ATL in the comments section below.
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.01 would be too much. Hilarious post.
ReplyDeleteI love this post, you are hilarious!
ReplyDeleteIt's a Georgetown degree, judging from the picture.
ReplyDeleteSome of my co-workers laughed their butts off, when I showed them this Ebay description. And people still have the nerve to say T14 or bust. Depending on who you ask, it may be HYS or bust. Simply put, law school is a terrible financial decision.
ReplyDeleteWas it Georgetown? I'm guessing it wasn't one of the top 3, which are apparently your only real guarantee. Then again I met a Stanford law grad that worked as a stock broker, although I believe he had done that intentionally, not because he was forced to. Was one of the nicer attorneys I met, maybe that's why he quit being one.
ReplyDeleteOh, this is great. Somebody else did this once on eBay, too. I've thought about burning my JD up or shredding it, but then I remembered it was the most expensive thing I own. How sad.
ReplyDeleteThis was on SF/Bay area craigslist too, under "For Sale." Not only that, but after this person posted his JD to sell, someone else did too, although I think that posting was a TTT. Ha. It would be even funnier than it is if it wasn't so sad.
ReplyDeletefollowup post on ATL from the lawyer in question with his comments (excerpted partially below):
ReplyDeletehttp://abovethelaw.com/2010/03/georgetown_law_degree_on_craigslist.php#more
I have no idea what I am going to do now other than sit on a beach drinking beer and doing nothing for a while.
The Craigslist post was just a spur of the moment thing. I was cleaning out some stuff and I came across my law diploma which I hadn’t seen in years. I started thinking, why the hell do I have this piece of shit still. It is freaking useless. So I posted it on Craigslist. I didn’t expect it to get this much attention. That said, I think my post has hit a nerve because lots of lawyers feel that the system is broken. The student loan industry is killing us. Law schools aren’t even teaching marketable skills. Lower ranked schools are selling a product that has no value. The supply of lawyers far exceeds demand. And if you do get a large law firm job, you likely will leave within 2-5 years because law firms are TTT places to work. So overall it’s a crappy situation for the vast majority of lawyers.
Thanks for the update, everyone! I don't visit ATL regularly so I didn't see the guy's response. Way to go! Everything he said is spot on.
ReplyDeleteapparently the item is no longer for sale:
ReplyDeletehttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=160408577796
Guess that's why I don't get along w/most lawyers. I have hobbies & hate assholes. One attorney who'd been in a million bar associations emboldened my general hatred of them.
ReplyDeleteA law degree is an expensive commodity to come by, well it was anyway - instead of studying law I'm just going to purchase this trinket off of eBay and legally change my name to match.
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