Ambulance chasers

Perspective. I try to keep calm and create perspective in my mind which might allow me to understand. I was listening to a television show and they were referring to "ambulance chasers" and I understand the source of the sentiment, I guess. You know, I wanted to be a lawyer so I would have be someone who had stature in the community. But I have met some lawyers who I would have assumed would be leaders in their communities and lawyers don't necessarily have a monopoly on leadership ability. I know that most politicians seem to be lawyers. I don't necessarily know why that is. A lot of people who go through college like myself, without a degree which would lead to a life of practical money-making, end up in law school. Kind of a second choice choice of life. I guess most of the politicians probably don't practice much law. John Edwards may be the only one I can think of who actually used his law degree to make a living (read: fortune) before he went into politics. His problem was he was just too good to be true. Rose too quickly and fell even quicker. I think a couple others were prosecutors, but, Hell, most of them only prosecuted for a couple of years before they went into politics and left the law behind. Of course, politicians aren't much higher than lawyers in public sentiment. On the other hand, we seem to give them our adoration and votes every two years. Or even quicker. We are required to elect them to fill the posts. The posts we create to take care of our governmental needs.

Still, lawyers aren't held in much high regard these days. It is sad. The thing I wanted just doesn't seem to be available on the modern occupational market. Oh well. Its hard to keep up anyway. I probably make people happy or mad in equal proportions. Today, I kept a client out of jail. Her accuser isn't very happy with me about now. Join the club. I am sure the ones who aren't happy probably just label me as an ambulance chaser. Or something worse. Its hard to justify yourself sometimes.