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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Big law partner here. 48yo. Income $1m+. Career tip: get good education, work hard, look for opportunities and use them! [/quote]

Let me guess: Dad had high powered job.

Love these women that mask their class level by telling the rest of us to ‘work hard’

Law school is what these days? 250,000?

It ain’t about working hard and getting a law degree solely.  There are so many nonverbal clues you likely just picked up by osmosis - oh and Dad’s law partner just happened to pick you up for that summer internship…[/quote]

How about illegal immigrant raised by a single mother, and now a BigLaw partner?

Is that good enough for your stereotypes? 
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Big Law partner here. Thanks to everyone who defended me. And PP, you almost nailed it.

I really hate to disappoint the presumptuous poster, but my parents are (legal) immigrants. Technically speaking, I am an immigrant myself. So no upper class upbringing here or Big Law connections. I came from nothing. So yeah, working hard occasionally does pay off. [/quote]

You did not “come from nothing.“ You came from hard-working immigrant parents. They are the ones who came from nothing.[/quote]

NP, but seriously what does the phrase even mean then? Everyone comes from “something.” Your genes/environment made you more inclined to work harder, be intelligent enough, etc to get to where you are.

It seemed that PP’s point was she did have a big law dad or family money to help her achieve partner status behind the scenes; but all of us are shaped in some way by our families, including those who (in your view) actually “come from nothing.” [/quote]

If the poster had said “I come from an immigrant family that did not have a lot of money,“ that would be one thing. But to refer to her hard-working, immigrant parents as “nothing” is a real insult and slap in the face to them.   This poster had two parents with enough drive to move to another country.  They obviously instilled their work ethic in her.  She wasn’t disadvantaged in the slightest.  In the most important of ways - parenting - she actually had an edge.  [/quote]

Really unfair to skewer people on how they describe their parents! I’ve described my immigrant parents from coming from nothing b/c while I love them they had ZERO emotional maturity and weren’t great parents.   So, yeah, it felt like I got “nothing” a lot of the time[/quote]

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