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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I absolutely love working there--the people, the content, the mission--it has been amazing compared to private practice or other public service jobs I've had. [/quote]

Most people don’t go to law school to “serve veterans.” Most people don’t go to law school to crank out three disability decisions a week. Some people enjoy working at the Board, but the thing that they love is not the mission or the work but rather the generous remote work policy. They put up with the work because of the remote work policy.[/quote]

False. Do you realize that several law schools have clinics in veterans' law?

You have no idea what other people's motivations are unless you survey them. 
What is your opinion of why people get married or have children? Please tell us since you know all about personal motivations of others.

Be an adult and take personal rsponsibility.
Maybe you should get therapy to explore why you are so unhappy at the Board.
Maybe you want a different job. Just worry about yourself and try to solve your own unhappiness with your job.  There is no need to convince other people why they do or do not want their job at the Board.[/quote]

I’m aware that law schools such as Harvard have veterans law clinic. Harvard Law partners with Chisholm and Chisholm to litigate VA disability law cases in court on a pro bono basis. I’m sure these students enjoy getting experience and getting the chance to help veterans.

However, these Harvard Law students aren’t joining Chisholm and Chisholm after graduation. In fact, Chisholm and Chisholm currently have zero Harvard grads on staff.

Also, you should know that the overwhelming majority of new attorneys at the Board have zero prior veterans law experience. I have yet to meet a new attorney at the Board with prior veterans law clinic experience. The majority of new attorney decision writers at the Board are former SSA attorney decision writers who joined the Board for the higher salary and remote option.

So, I don’t think that I’m wrong in saying that most attorneys don’t join the Board or SSA, for that matter, to “hep people” or draft x number of decisions a week.[/quote]

You are wrong. I know several who worked in legal clinics in law school clinics in veterans law and several others who worked with members of Congress who served on the Veterans Affairs committees.  But go ahead and tell me how many you have met working remotely from your living room.

Many attorneys are attracted to the job because they, their spouse, or their parent served in the military. Other attorneys may not join with the mission to help veterans but the ones who are not aligned with that mission usually leave.

But still you need to stop worrying about labeling everyone. Work on your unhappiness that causes you to have so much negativity toward your job.[/quote]

Do you disagree that many of your colleagues at the Board previously worked as decision writers at SSA? Prior to the expansion of remote work, you couldn’t even throw a shoe at BVA without hitting a former SSA decision writer.[/quote]

I don't know about "many"  There are about 800 decision writing attorneys here. I personally have only known about 10 from SSA. So that is 10 out of 800. In terms of the total it is not "most" or even "many."

Also, what does 10 or 20 people working for SSA have to do with your earlier assertion that no one chooses to work at VA. That is simply not true.  You have a lot of negativity toward VA and could probably use some counseling for your attitude. Life's too short to be so pissed.[/quote]

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