@bulk-vh lmao. no too boring. contract cases. dental malpractice. die from the boredom. i'd like to be a sheriff's deputy or a marshall though assigned to the courts. just transport people to jail. i'd be like dog to them too. like after he got em. give em a smoke. tell them this is what they needed but don't lose hope. youve still got one more act to go if you fly right. pay would need to increase dramatically tho. and i won't wear a uniform.
@bulk-vh lmao. no too boring. contract cases. dental malpractice. die from the boredom. i'd like to be a sheriff's deputy or a marshall though assigned to the courts. just transport people to jail. i'd be like dog to them too. like after he got em. give em a smoke. tell them this is what they needed but don't lose hope. youve still got one more act to go if you fly right. pay would need to increase dramatically tho. and i won't wear a uniform.
Cheech and Chong...
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Go back to lawyering. 80 hour weeks are a piece of cake and can still make most happy hours.
My main interactions with lawyers has been with patent law trial attorneys, in cases where I have been a chemistry expert and where someone was making invalidity contentions on a patent, usually to bring a drug on the generic market earlier than the patent in question would allow.
Those lawyers, at least in the weeks and months leading up to trial, seem to have no life at all. They send me emails any time of the day or night, and also respond to my emails in minutes, where it's 5AM, 11AM, or 11 PM. It's maybe not as hectic earlier, in the expert report generation and expert deposition phases, but it's still pretty crazy.
Then when I show up days before deposition and before trial, these lawyers are in their hotel bunkers living on redbull and junk food and seemingly never sleeping.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@shooter the most shocking thing of all in going from practicing law to the business world is response time. lawyers email back in minutes and damn sure that day. 7 days a week. of our crew of 8 including cortez all but one have gotten the hell out. business people IF you get a call back it's at their convenience and they are rarely in any hurry at all.
@larsiu 80 hour week. good lord. you've still got stamina. i can't do it anymore.
I've been feeling like making a change for a long time, but I think I'm finally going to pull the trigger over the next 6 months or so.
That said, I have thought about starting a new job and having to grind week in and week out. I get a lot done now and do feel like I work hard at what I do, but I've been in this job for a bit now and have things figured out. I almost jumped at a job last fall in Chicago, but that was largely because of a woman I'm no longer dating, so I'm glad I didn't take the leap. Plus, they were too old school - they said they've tried remote/hybrid work for people and it doesn't work with their culture.
I've been feeling like making a change for a long time
then you don't have a choice. you have to do it
let's analyze this...
Ukraine wouldn't want anything to happen to one of their biggest supporters- TRUE
Russia wouldn't mind, however- TRUE
Likely no shenanigans, however, given his age and health- TRUE
Potentially a pulmonary embolism, given that it can cause sudden death and often follows long periods of prolonged sitting (e.g., during a long flights)- INCORRECT, in this case, as it was an aortic dissection rather than a much more common pulmonary embolism (affecting 1 in every 1,000 people yearly, vs. aortic dissection affecting ~1 in every 35,000 people yearly)
It wasn’t an embolism. NOBODY gets it wrong more than Shooter!!!
then you don't have a choice. you have to do it
that's kind of what I'm thinking. A year from now my son will be done with college and my daughter will have one more year. I'm hoping the financial commitment for both of them goes down significantly with them being on their own, which frees me up a bit. I'm sure kids in their early 20s will still need money from their parents, but maybe not as much money...
Arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, hypertension and living alone (all applicable to Graham) are all risk factors, especially for men, for a sudden and untimely death.
Middle-aged guys, particularly those with a family history, should consider getting a heart scan that yields a calcium score. The scans can also pick up thoracic (but not abdominal) aneurysms.
Right before Easter last year a guy I used to work with went out for his daily run and while he was doing his cool down in the garage, he had a fatal hheart attack. 2 years older than me. I called a friend who had also worked with him and she told me she'd been meaning to call me because she had a heart attack while on a treadmill during a stress test to "rule out" heart issues for fatigue. Both had major blockages.
I scheduled a heart scan because I was freaked out and worried. Best $50 I've ever spent for the peace of mind.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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It wasn’t an embolism.
And I didn't say that it was. I said that, without other info and without being a doctor, that's what it PROBABLY would turn out to be. And that indeed would have been the odds-on favorite to match the description of sudden death after travel. But it was the much rarer aoertic dissection.
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
Right before Easter last year a guy I used to work with went out for his daily run and while he was doing his cool down in the garage, he had a fatal hheart attack. 2 years older than me. I called a friend who had also worked with him and she told me she'd been meaning to call me because she had a heart attack while on a treadmill during a stress test to "rule out" heart issues for fatigue. Both had major blockages.
I scheduled a heart scan because I was freaked out and worried. Best $50 I've ever spent for the peace of mind.
Back when my kids were in kindergarten/preschool, one of the dads had a fatal heart attack on a run one morning. He was on his second marriage and was probably about the age I am now. To be fair, if I had kids who were in preschool right now, I'd probably kiel over too. I've loved every second of being a dad, but I really have no desire to hit the reset button.
Re: piece of mind, I had a complete physical last year and everything seemed to be in good order then.
My brother died of a sudden heart attack in his late 50s. He was an MD, in top shape, and he ran marathons. He ate healthy, no smoking, no drinking, some stress with being an MD, though he was a pathologist and so he had a pretty regular schedule. Never got to enjoy a day of retirement. He apparently saw no warning signs, despite his training to know the warning signs. It doesn't always make any sense.
My other brother died at 71. That was a long and lingering death (cancer, with the end hastened by COVID) and the way less desirable way to go, IMO.
Those deaths and my parents both dying of cardiovascular disease (Mom @ 77, Dad at 85) changed my thinking about diet and exercise and about NOT working past 66 or 67. Not going to do it. I want to enjoy retirement, and with my family history, I am very unlikely to see 90 so it's time to see more of the world while I can. 46 or 50 states visited, 5 of 7 continents. Time to go places. Though I'm still ~4 years away from 67. I could afford to retire earlier but I do enjoy the projects I have going on (2 new grants funded this year)
"You can't make someone listen to reason if they aren't willing to think"-- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
@unclemark It’s kind of crazy how Hunter Biden has become a voice of reason on twitter these days.