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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I work at a law firm and we specifically recruit a lot of people first in their families to go to college, let alone law school. So while I, a person raised by people with graduate degrees, would know this, someone raised by people with little education and a non-white collar job might not.”

Babe - I was first generation to not only go to college but also get a graduate (law) degree and my parents had blue collar jobs. But they both had HS degrees + junior college/trade school certifications and were both extremely smart and competent (which is why they produced a child who scored 98% on the LSAT and became a partner in BigLaw). Sure, they didn’t understand my work world, but they weren’t ignorant either.[/quote]

Thank you for saying this. I grew up blue collar and went on to work in big law. It wasn’t the first generation or interns from working class backgrounds that were clueless about reading a room. More often than not it was the young people from wealthier backgrounds who had never worked service or entry level jobs who did this. They tended to think they were so smart and lacked the humility to realize there was a lot they didn’t know. Those of us from working class backgrounds or lower middle class backgrounds had had to learn to read the room to “move up” and learn to fit in. [/quote]

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