How much time have you spent in foreign countries?

[Admiral Yi]

10+ years. 

[Maximus]

Nearly 5 years since I moved to the US, but I don't really count it as foreign.

[Barrister]

Should an EU citizen living in another EU country really count as a "foreign country"?

[crazy canuck]

A longish trip like that would be fucking awesome.

It was really something.  Made some life long friends along the way and it really changed the way I looked at life.  Funny thing was I thought I would do it again some day.  I had no real appreciation for how special that time was at the time.

[Iormlund]

Should an EU citizen living in another EU country really count as a "foreign country"?

Heh. Most of us can't even understand each other.

[Lettow77]

I work for a living.

Voted "only tourist trips".

Yeah, mister red-blooded working man, the lawyer.   

[Eddie Teach]

A week in Canada, an afternoon in Mexico. I don't like to travel.

[Barrister]

I work for a living.

Voted "only tourist trips".

Yeah, mister red-blooded working man, the lawyer.   

Does working as a lawyer not qualify as "work"? 

A funny attitude for someone who said he wanted to go to law school.

[Lettow77]

 Yeah, I am going to go into law school, and i'll be a successful lawyer.

I have no missaprehensions that this entails an honest working man's trade, however..
I have seen law close enough to know that alot of it is scaring people into paying you more than you deserve by impressing upon them how much time they might do, and cutting deals out of court to minimize workloads.

Most lawyers I have seen do not work 8 hour days, and they are paid ludicrously more than the job merits, save that they patiently waited through the years to earn their license to steal.

I am unimpressed.

Edit: An Engineer, now, that's a real working man's job.

[Ed Anger]

Only a hard day watching the negroes in the fields count.

[Razgovory]

Yeah, I am going to go into law school, and i'll be a successful lawyer.

I have no missaprehensions that this entails an honest working man's trade, however..
I have seen law close enough to know that alot of it is scaring people into paying you more than you deserve by impressing upon them how much time they might do, and cutting deals out of court to minimize workloads.

Most lawyers I have seen do not work 8 hour days, and they are paid ludicrously more than the job merits, save that they patiently waited through the years to earn their license to steal.

I am unimpressed.

Edit: An Engineer, now, that's a real working man's job.

Lawyers I've met work themselves pretty hard.  I'm surprised more don't burn out and go insane.

[Lettow77]

 Granted, I have seen lawyers who work hard. My father usually is not home, and he goes nowhere else but his office; he works as desperately as he can for people who absolutely do not deserve it, and at ludicrously low wages.

He is certaintly an exception to the rule, however.

I think alot of it is how much emotional investment you have in your client's lives. What happens to them is momentous stuff for them, but more successful lawyers seem to have a detatchment from their fates and more of an interest on the money to accrued.

[CountDeMoney]

As Viper used to keep in his sig, I'll simply state my usual line:  I don't need to travel to see the world, because the world comes here and starts crime syndicates.

[Barrister]

Yeah, I am going to go into law school, and i'll be a successful lawyer.

I have no missaprehensions that this entails an honest working man's trade, however..
I have seen law close enough to know that alot of it is scaring people into paying you more than you deserve by impressing upon them how much time they might do, and cutting deals out of court to minimize workloads.

Most lawyers I have seen do not work 8 hour days, and they are paid ludicrously more than the job merits, save that they patiently waited through the years to earn their license to steal.

I am unimpressed.

[katmai]

Yet you are impressed enough to go into it?