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Mediocre Man said:
One of the reason's I love the south is that no one really corrects grammar or speech. Here they would have said shoulda
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I have a co-worker from florida. He told me that, apparently when he was about eight, he realized the southern accent sounds like a moron. So he decided at that age to teach himself to not speak with a southern accent. I've also heard that the southern american accent is what the english accent used to sound like.
 
Vinyard said:
Very interesting. I'm heading into my senior year as a Criminal Justice major. I'm thinking I should of majored in Computer Science instead. Started as a History major then switched to Criminal...should of switched again.
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Criminal Justice is really fucking intriguing, which is why I started down that path with a double major of AJ and Accounting. I was in both..... Next thing you know....

9/11 happens. People are all over that. Criminal Justice is booming.

Then the Enron/Arthur Andersen shit happen. Accounting and CJ are booming.

Accounting I figured would take me wherever is business, or the FBI. Or CJ+Accounting to the FBI. Then, I realized I like to party. Accounting and CJ are two of the most credit-intensive majors you can have at PSU (for just a Bachelor's). I realized that would take too long, and I enjoy partying. So I went with a job that pays well (though perhaps a lower ceiling unless I leave the industry) and allows me to party.

Life is too fucking short. I like my balance of pay and party.
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
Criminal Justice is really fucking intriguing, which is why I started down that path with a double major of AJ and Accounting. I was in both..... Next thing you know....

9/11 happens. People are all over that. Criminal Justice is booming.

Then the Enron/Arthur Andersen shit happen. Accounting and CJ are booming.

Accounting I figured would take me wherever is business, or the FBI. Or CJ+Accounting to the FBI. Then, I realized I like to party. Accounting and CJ are two of the most credit-intensive majors you can have at PSU (for just a Bachelor's). I realized that would take too long, and I enjoy partying. So I went with a job that pays well (though perhaps a lower ceiling unless I leave the industry) and allows me to party.

Life is too fucking short. I like my balance of pay and party.
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Really? I keep reading that CJ is somewhat a worthless degree.
 
Ed O said:
Political Science/Econ undergrad. JD and MBA.

I do interactive project management-type work.

My regrets involve my undergrad classes/majors: I should have gotten a more technical degree (electrical engineering/computer science). I was most interested in being an IP attorney, but to appear before the patent bar (and, indeed, to get a job in that field, based on my research at the time) you need to have a technical undergrad degree. I'm not sure I would have become a practicing attorney if I had that kind of degree under my belt, but I would have liked to have the option.

Ed O.
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That's what my wife was finding when she was looking into patent/ip/trademark law a couple of years ago. She was a finance and marketing undergrad and has a JD/MBA, but without the technical degree it'd be really hard to get into a firm that specializes in those areas. What type of law do you practice Ed? Are you at one of the bigger firms in Seattle? We're looking to go back to the NW sometime in the next couple of years, so any insight into the Seattle legal market would be great.

As for me, my undergrad was in business, focusing on entrepreneurship and finance and I'm a financial analyst for large manufacturing company.
 
Mediocre Man said:
What is it you enjoy doing?
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I changed my major to CJ because I wanted to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. Not a regular city cop, but perhaps something federal. FBI would be awesome. Lately I've been having mixed feelings. If I had majored in something like Computer Science, I would have had more options in the event that I could not find a job in Law Enforcement that I wanted.
 
Vinyard said:
Really? I keep reading that CJ is somewhat a worthless degree.
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I meant at the time it was booming. But forensic accounting is actually fairly big right now, in terms of growth (or at least was recently). FBI, at least a year ago, was hiring pretty big. CJ is better with another degree - a lot of places that desire the CJ degree also want you to have another degree to show you're a well-rounded individual and have other skills.
 
Vinyard said:
I changed my major to CJ because I wanted to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. Not a regular city cop, but perhaps something federal. FBI would be awesome. Lately I've been having mixed feelings. If I had majored in something like Computer Science, I would have had more options in the event that I could not find a job in Law Enforcement that I wanted.
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I was hooked up for an interview/meet-and-greet with a very high-up FBI agent in DC through a relative. It sounds awesome, and I was really interested in the FBI for a while.

Then my cousin went into the FBI, and was sent (with his wife) to middle-of-nowhere Texas for 5-7 years and I decided against it.
 
After double-majoring in Moderation and Posting Science, I am now a mod here at S2!

No regrets.

barfo
 
BLAZINGGIANTS said:
I meant at the time it was booming. But forensic accounting is actually fairly big right now, in terms of growth (or at least was recently). FBI, at least a year ago, was hiring pretty big. CJ is better with another degree - a lot of places that desire the CJ degree also want you to have another degree to show you're a well-rounded individual and have other skills.
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I wouldn't mind picking up another major if I had the funds for it.

Then there's always the Air Force or Navy.
 
EL PRESIDENTE said:
???? Who? I just had this song stuck in my head

{Poasted via palm pilot}
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Just making sure. Someone, or someones, said something about it the other day. Can't remember how you responded, just making sure you didn't change it cuz of some whiny peeps. That's all. Just checkin', FAMS!

And WTF song is that?
 
Million voices by otto knows



{Poasted via palm pilot}
 
Vinyard said:
I changed my major to CJ because I wanted to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. Not a regular city cop, but perhaps something federal. FBI would be awesome. Lately I've been having mixed feelings. If I had majored in something like Computer Science, I would have had more options in the event that I could not find a job in Law Enforcement that I wanted.
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I have a friend that works for the FBI. He was on the anti terrorist team for a while, which he said was a blast. Now fraud which is boring as heck he says. Also, he and his wife struggle a bit because he literally can't say anything to her about work
 
Mediocre Man said:
I have a friend that works for the FBI. He was on the anti terrorist team for a while, which he said was a blast. Now fraud which is boring as heck he says. Also, he and his wife struggle a bit because he literally can't say anything to her about work
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What was his resume like?
 
porkchopexpress said:
That's what my wife was finding when she was looking into patent/ip/trademark law a couple of years ago. She was a finance and marketing undergrad and has a JD/MBA, but without the technical degree it'd be really hard to get into a firm that specializes in those areas. What type of law do you practice Ed? Are you at one of the bigger firms in Seattle? We're looking to go back to the NW sometime in the next couple of years, so any insight into the Seattle legal market would be great.
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I actually don't practice. I moved to Seattle towards the end of the dot com boom (right after law school) and got a job putting Pets.com and Drugstore.com products onto a light table. It was $18/hour to stand around in shorts with a really cute photographer (although I was married at the time, so it didn't really do me that much good), and then I transitioned to a project management role as the agency was looking for organized people who could learn quickly.

I passed the bar a year or two later, but other than the money I've spent on CLEs and dues, I haven't had much to do with the legal aspect of my life.

My gf is starting law school in the fall, and I anticipate learning a lot more about the legal community as she networks, etc., but right now I'm not a ton of help there. Sorry, man.

Ed O.
 
Vinyard said:
I changed my major to CJ because I wanted to pursue a career in Law Enforcement. Not a regular city cop, but perhaps something federal. FBI would be awesome. Lately I've been having mixed feelings. If I had majored in something like Computer Science, I would have had more options in the event that I could not find a job in Law Enforcement that I wanted.
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If you want a federal job in law enforcement, you should also go to law school. My next door neighbor is a DEA agent, and he has his J.D. from Willamette after he studied criminal justice at Utah.
 
I do speak another language so that's a definite plus.
 
Ed O said:
I actually don't practice. I moved to Seattle towards the end of the dot com boom (right after law school) and got a job putting Pets.com and Drugstore.com products onto a light table. It was $18/hour to stand around in shorts with a really cute photographer (although I was married at the time, so it didn't really do me that much good), and then I transitioned to a project management role as the agency was looking for organized people who could learn quickly.

I passed the bar a year or two later, but other than the money I've spent on CLEs and dues, I haven't had much to do with the legal aspect of my life.

My gf is starting law school in the fall, and I anticipate learning a lot more about the legal community as she networks, etc., but right now I'm not a ton of help there. Sorry, man.

Ed O.
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No problem about not being able to help. We just started thinking about it, but since she has a good gig down here we're a little reluctant to move (esp with 4 years of grad school loans). Good luck to your GF. Hopefully the legal market is better in a few years when she gets out. The market was horrible when my wife got out of school and San Diego was the closest to Por/Sea we could get (she went to school back East).
 
Mediocre Man said:
Хороший, я говорю на плохом русском языке


I really don't know how to type it though. I am semi fluent in 4 foreign languages
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Nice.

I'm actually still working on my reading and writing. Years of living in the United States and the lack of practice has caused it to suffer.
 
Vinyard said:
Nice.

I'm actually still working on my reading and writing. Years of living in the United States and the lack of practice has caused it to suffer.
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I obviously used a translator for that, but I can speak shitty Russian
 
I obviously used a translator for that, but I can speak shitty Russian
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I was able to read it but it took some time.

SE Portland now has a sizable Russian community. You could become an undercover DEA guy and bust the big Russian drug ring.
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I was considering DEA for a long time, but then it hit me that I'm not 100% against drugs.
 
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