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What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:04 pm
by LOLyer
The money? The power? The masochistic self-loathing? The lack of anything else better to do with your liberal arts degree?
Genuinely curious.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:25 pm
by kaiser
A raging insecurity complex and desire to rub whatever success I achieve in the faces of all those who tried to bring me down. Compliments, while appreciated, do nothing for me. But an insult? That will light a fire that burns for a long time. So essentially, I am driven by all the pent up negative energy imaginable.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:27 pm
by dailygrind
Sounds healthy, friend.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:30 pm
by nealric
A chauffeur.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:30 pm
by kaiser
dailygrind wrote:Sounds healthy, friend.
Yeah, probably not too healthy. But I guess it sort of works. Better to have a poor source of motivation than no source of motivation.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:33 pm
by 071816
The babes.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 7:43 pm
by quiver
nealric wrote:A chauffeur.
Solid answer.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:06 pm
by LOLyer
The easiest way to explain chronic overachievers is compensation for some other shortcoming.
Why would you subject yourself to this hell if you're happy with how you are?
Besides, penis enlargement surgery is cheaper.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:06 pm
by crossarmant
Ever since I saw American Psycho, and subsequently read the book, I've been looking to get into a field where I could obsessively fret over the weight and font of someone's business card.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:07 pm
by kaiser
crossarmant wrote:Ever since I saw American Psycho, and subsequently read the book, I've been looking to get into a field where I could obsessively fret over the weight and font of someone's business card.
"Oh my god, it has a watermark"
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:11 pm
by MrPapagiorgio
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:11 pm
by LOLyer
crossarmant wrote:Ever since I saw American Psycho, and subsequently read the book, I've been looking to get into a field where I could obsessively fret over the weight and font of someone's business card.
And shoot people in the back of the head with nail guns, for that matter.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:25 pm
by crossarmant
kaiser wrote:crossarmant wrote:Ever since I saw American Psycho, and subsequently read the book, I've been looking to get into a field where I could obsessively fret over the weight and font of someone's business card.
"Oh my god, it has a watermark"
To be fair, the law school curve does kind of feel like this anyways:

Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:41 pm
by VincentChase
A big thing for me is that law firms have a very delineated hierarchy you can climb, and you largely know how to get there and how long it will take. That wasn't the case in my prior career.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:42 pm
by Sapientia
Fear of failure/mediocrity
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:45 pm
by vinoveritas
I heard a rumor that some people want to be lawyers because they are genuinely interested in it as an intellectual pursuit, and see it as a gateway for doing important work, whether that be as a powerful lawyer, a politician, or as an academic.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:46 pm
by LOLyer
vinoveritas wrote:I heard a rumor that some people want to be lawyers because they are genuinely interested in it as an intellectual pursuit, and see it as a gateway for doing important work, whether that be as a powerful lawyer, a politician, or as an academic.
Lol.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:48 pm
by crossarmant
vinoveritas wrote:I heard a rumor that some people want to be lawyers because they are genuinely interested in it as an intellectual pursuit, and see it as a gateway for doing important work, whether that be as a powerful lawyer, a politician, or as an academic.
0L, I presume?
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:50 pm
by vinoveritas
Absolutely a 0L. And I wear my naivety proudly on my sleeve.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 8:52 pm
by laxbrah420
Yea my only fear is mediocrity. Fuck fame fuck money. Fuck everything anybody can take
From me
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:09 pm
by TTTLS
Strivers gonna strive.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:11 pm
by ryegye87
laxbrah420 wrote:Yea my only fear is mediocrity. Fuck fame fuck money. Fuck everything anybody can take
From me
Unfortunately that quote comes from a guy who was thought of as anything but mediocre by those who knew him, and he subsequently gave up that recognition for 1. fame and 2. money.
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:17 pm
by rad lulz
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Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:38 pm
by shock259
A Subaru
Re: What Drives You?
Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2012 9:53 pm
by SilverE2
shock259 wrote:A Subaru
NICE