I May be Young But...

[CoventryCat86]

Hey All;

Ok, first of all, I would like to clarify that this forum is probably the best out there when it comes to newbies and younger guys. (I am sure that some of you guys have answered the same questions 175 times and still been helpful!) Overall I was venting from experiences in the real world and other online forums.

Secondly, I hope no one took offense to myself or anyone else who mentioned their degrees. I am a company owner now, but I started out operating a "Crushing Plant" making road gravel so I would understand the process/industry better. Most of my best friends have "blue collar" jobs and on a whole, manuel working people are the best people out there.

As for the shock I am in for when I get out of School, I am already seeing that first hand. I am the youngest law student (out of 150 people) that I know about. The average second year age is between 26 and 27 and I am barely 22. I have already begun my work and have seen peoples impression of such a young studying lawyer. I am probably in for an interesting few years......

Finally for those interested, I would like to draw an inference between cigars and the practice of law. The persuit for knowledge of cigars is never ending, no one can say they know everything about cigars. In the same sence, no one can say they know everything about the law. Lawyers who have been practising for 25+ years still ask other lawyer questions and do very heavy research. The same is true of experienced cigar smokers. Both young and old, more often the young though, have to turn to others for advice.

Anyway, thanks for this great insight everyone! This has definitly been a great/informative post for me.

You make an unusually large amount of spelling and grammatical errors in your posts for someone who's getting ready to be a lawyer.

Now just because I've told you this once in the past, have you decided I'm on some sort of "superiority trip"? Maybe not, but my guess is that you have.

Well I found your first post in this thread to be completely ridiculous and downright offensive (and full of spelling errors too ). You started this thread saying this:

OK, there seems to be a lot of animosity going around here towards the younger guys...

Can you please site specific examples because maybe I must have missed something here because I see absolutely no "animosity" towards the younger guys. I see LOTS of "animosity" with respect to Scotty and he's 30. I see even MORE "animosity" towards RealPuroBrat and he's 40 something. I see people gettting a smack down when they deserve it and it has nothing to do with their age. In your case, the smack down I just gave isn't because you're 22 but because you made a pretty stupid statement.

My sense is that your insecurity (telling us on numerous occasions about your degree, your cigar collection and whatever ) results in your defensive attitude (all the other crap you mentioned in your first post).

Get over yourself and grow some skin, you're going to need it.