Welcome, underdogs. Let’s get down to brass tacks — what’s your underdog story, or maybe you’re still at the bottom of an uphill struggle?

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One: I never knew it was “brass tacks” I always spelled out “tax” in my head. Thank god I never used that idiom in a brief. 😆

Two: I’m in the middle of an uphill struggle, and I have been in the middle for years. But, I started at the bottom. State school only 50th percentile, moved to new state where the market is saturated with lawyers, and was unemployed for an entire year, despite sending out resumes like it was a full time job tailoring those darn things.

But I volunteered as much as I could and practiced networking. When I finally got an offer it was my first offer and I took it right away. I spend the next few years forcing myself to learn everything and become an absolute expert in 1/3 the time it takes everyone else. Now 8 years out of law school, I’m middle management at my firm, and I FINALLY have an impressive resume and a pretty good salary, and I’m going to use that to leverage myself for an even better job, cuz the one I’m in now requires me to work 75 hrs a week.

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First generation college grad, took bar in 2010, finally got a ‘dream job’ in 2018 that maybe justified my life choices and debt, laid off in May.

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Second career in my late 30s. Couldn’t get an LSAT high enough for a top tier school. Put myself through law school by working during the day and going to school at night for four years. Struggled to pass the California bar. Opened my own practice and have been quite successful with my own practice despite others telling me that it wasn’t possible. Never had a desire to go to big law or work in a firm so that has turned out to be exactly what I wanted. And I think I’ll work from home until I retire.

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What type of practice? Just curious.

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