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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's crazy to me how much more vitriol there is for SAHMs and teachers on this thread, but half of the people posting on here are corporate attorneys or married to one and no one says anything.

I've been a teacher, a corporate lawyer, and a SAHM. The only one that made me feel like I was actively working to make the world a worse place was corporate lawyer, obviously. It's not that everything you do is terrible. The vast majority of it feels neutral, boring, and benign. That's what's insidious. But you're participating in this massive system where a bunch of people just push paper around in a circle so that everything worthwhile can be more expensive and be harder to access for most people, and a very tiny percentage of the population can live like kings. It's actually messed up.

I know lots of corporate lawyers and I don't judge them personally. I know how it happens and how you justify your work to yourself (and how nice the money is even as the hours and culture often suck). But it is so weird to see so many people on DCUM acting like teachers and SAHMs are these awful scourges of society when I know exactly what so many of you do for work and it's a net negative. Sorry.[/quote]

I am a similar lawyer... transactional, real estate, and I feel absolutely nothing like this.  I help people build, renovate, buy, sell, buildings.  The world is a better place because of my efforts.  I can specifically know this because a handful of shiny buildings in various areas went up quicker as a result of my efforts and I can look at them, but even the other stuff like helping someone sell a building to someone that wants it is useful.

Maybe you worked for the wrong corporations, or did work you found unsatisfying for them?  [/quote]

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