Here’s why.
Go back 60 years and lawyers were treated almost as demigods. The reason for that was there were very few of them.
But in recent decades they’re a dime a dozen. Seemingly everyone these days has a law degree, albeit only a few ever get to use it and when grilled, can’t explain why they sought it in the first place.
Additionally, six and more decades back only a small percentage of the population went to university. The same thing applied to medicine and as with lawyers, doctors were treated with deferential awe.
This glut points up the understandable difficulties which arise when teenagers, barely out of childhood, are asked to make career decisions without realising that law and medicine aint all they’re cracked up to be.
I know heaps of lawyers still practising over 50 years of age. Most rue their career decision, moreso and particularly with barristers, as from 60 onwards they’re often forced into early retirement through lack of clients.
Anyone pursuing litigation who’s been round the block is fully aware that the best barristers who will apply enthusiasm for the cause, are usually in their late 30s.
So too with medicine.
There’s a massive shortage of doctors throughout the western world, for a very good reason.
While to a 17 year old being a doctor sounds prestigious, nearly all, after a decade or so in practise, wake up to what a horrible job it is, daily dealing with the pervading negativity of the sick and elderly. But by then, hamstrung with a family and a mortgage, it’s too late to get out.
Surveys show over 50% of British GPs want out, thus as indeed with New Zealand, increasingly the profession is dominated by Indian and African doctors, fleeing their homeland for the more financially rewarding advanced economies.
When Labour were rightly bum-rushed out of office last year, virtually the entire cabinet and all but two of their senior cabinet members, did not stand again as they sought more edifying final working years than rotting on the opposition benches, minus their former Cabinet Ministerial limousines, constant foreign travel, higher salaries and other perks.
The two exceptions were first, their leader Chris Napkins whose pre-parliamentary life was in diverse effective office boy roles with existing politicians, and former senior Cabinet Minister and lawyer, David Parker.
Over his political career, whether standing for the Party leadership or on three occasions as a candidate, Parker always copped a hiding, due in my view to his pervading negativity and unpleasant face.
In an overcrowded field he could not hang up his shingle as a lawyer, nor would any existing practice take him on given his certain inability to attract clients, thus thanks to the list system, he sees out his working life in the tedious and unsatisfying opposition MP role.
So back to Golriz. Now in early middle-age God only knows what she can do to earn a living. But if her conviction stops her from a law license, she should rightly view that as a blessing.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE - where this article was sourced.
But in recent decades they’re a dime a dozen. Seemingly everyone these days has a law degree, albeit only a few ever get to use it and when grilled, can’t explain why they sought it in the first place.
Additionally, six and more decades back only a small percentage of the population went to university. The same thing applied to medicine and as with lawyers, doctors were treated with deferential awe.
This glut points up the understandable difficulties which arise when teenagers, barely out of childhood, are asked to make career decisions without realising that law and medicine aint all they’re cracked up to be.
I know heaps of lawyers still practising over 50 years of age. Most rue their career decision, moreso and particularly with barristers, as from 60 onwards they’re often forced into early retirement through lack of clients.
Anyone pursuing litigation who’s been round the block is fully aware that the best barristers who will apply enthusiasm for the cause, are usually in their late 30s.
So too with medicine.
There’s a massive shortage of doctors throughout the western world, for a very good reason.
While to a 17 year old being a doctor sounds prestigious, nearly all, after a decade or so in practise, wake up to what a horrible job it is, daily dealing with the pervading negativity of the sick and elderly. But by then, hamstrung with a family and a mortgage, it’s too late to get out.
Surveys show over 50% of British GPs want out, thus as indeed with New Zealand, increasingly the profession is dominated by Indian and African doctors, fleeing their homeland for the more financially rewarding advanced economies.
When Labour were rightly bum-rushed out of office last year, virtually the entire cabinet and all but two of their senior cabinet members, did not stand again as they sought more edifying final working years than rotting on the opposition benches, minus their former Cabinet Ministerial limousines, constant foreign travel, higher salaries and other perks.
The two exceptions were first, their leader Chris Napkins whose pre-parliamentary life was in diverse effective office boy roles with existing politicians, and former senior Cabinet Minister and lawyer, David Parker.
Over his political career, whether standing for the Party leadership or on three occasions as a candidate, Parker always copped a hiding, due in my view to his pervading negativity and unpleasant face.
In an overcrowded field he could not hang up his shingle as a lawyer, nor would any existing practice take him on given his certain inability to attract clients, thus thanks to the list system, he sees out his working life in the tedious and unsatisfying opposition MP role.
So back to Golriz. Now in early middle-age God only knows what she can do to earn a living. But if her conviction stops her from a law license, she should rightly view that as a blessing.
Sir Bob Jones is a renowned author, columnist , property investor, and former politician, who blogs at No Punches Pulled HERE - where this article was sourced.
9 comments:
"God only knows what she can do to earn a living". She doesn't really have much appeal I expect for many. I doubt Kiri Alan would help her out in being a lobbyist either. What to do.
Bob, I love it. You are a champ mate, you always get me to laugh.....something missing a lot these days as the world becomes more militant by the second.
The pearler: Chris napkins! Fantastic, I hadn't heard that one before. Thanks mate.
She appears to have a penchant for fashion clothes so I suggest the fashion industry modelling clothes for mid-life woman going through a mid-life identity crisis. She appears to have the face and figure for this as well.
Alternatively a prison warden where she counsels women felons with kindness and understanding.
Actually I can think of hundreds of satisfying jobs that are actually building and contributing to society not breaking it down with Marxists rhetoric as the Greens do.
I take the following statement from Sir Rob's Comment (quote) "But in recent decades they’re a dime a dozen. Seemingly everyone these days has a law degree, albeit only a few ever get to use it and when grilled, can’t explain why they sought it in the first place". (unquote).
Si Robert - I am sure you can "apply that statement to the many, within America, that annually line up at a University to study Law".
I wonder how many jobs are available to them, at completion of study?
As to Golriz, I am waiting to hear that she has departed for America, to seek e-employment with the UN, as a specialist Lawyer on Gaza.
She was, indeed, lucky. As she seems only too eager to portray her alignment with Islam, under sharia it would have been off with her hand or worse..
Golriz will probably just keep going as a narcissistic, self diagnosed mentally ill and grievance victim and advocate, but now more likely to pay for her own designer clothes. Plenty of grievance money in the pot for the self interested. A book and column is probably next.
Absolutely right about the amount of lawyers and those with law degrees everywhere. NZ has more lawyers per capita than the UK! The problem is that many NZ lawyers tend to be narrow minded, impractical people who resist change and innovation and think everything is a debate where the best speakers win. Life is not really like a court room. In addition the actual standard of lawyers is getting worse and worse even in their own area - with addiction, 'mental health' and gambling issues as well as fraud all making headlines. Look at Golriz, slap on the wrist.
In organisations there may be experts who are not great debaters but actually know what they are doing whose views get bulldozed by their law degree colleagues - therefore NZ's innovation and productivity is dropping in line with the amount of lawyers taking over other roles. Hard to get anywhere where lawyers have taken over a practical subject.
Try and find a director who is not a lawyer and accountant is hard - but NZ is so good running business into the ground, why stop with new skills!
Sensing that Information Technology is a growing wealth area there is a plethora of lawyers and law degree holders moving into it, but sadly they are very bad at IT and even armed with their webinars on every subject, manage to blow millions around their involvement in IT projects with very little to show for it.
"God only knows what she can do to earn a living"
Golriz will lie low for a little while to let the public sentiment on her settle down and then will write a book about mental health and go on a speaking and media tour. With the passing of time people will be more easily manipulated into seeing her as a victim and she will emerge from hiding and receive goodwill. Mark my words.
Barristers and lawyers in general are very far from a dime a dozen. Their hourly rates are beyond comprehension of ordinary folk. If charges were less crippling and the law moved at reasonable speed, there would be endless employment for them.
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