Law School

Cool for cats

By Jim Chen et al.

What sort of business gives all this to its employees, plus the opportunity to conduct "self-governance" without regard to the company's real stakeholders? This is why many people call law teaching "the best job in the world." Employment terms this generous would ruin any for-profit business, and a government agency operating with comparable impunity would incite public outcry.

Fellow teachers of law, whenever we're feeling squeezed, remember that higher education is cool for cats, and faculty members are either tenured cats or not-yet-tenured kittens in waiting:

Squeeze, Cool for Cats (1979)

To change the mood a little I've been posing down the pub On seeing my reflection I'm looking slightly rough I fancy this, I fancy that I wanna be so flash I give a little muscle And I spend a little cash But all I get is bitter and a nasty little rash And by the time I'm sober I've forgotten what I've had And everybody tells me that it's cool to be a cat Cool for cats

Full post as published by MoneyLaw on March 26, 2008 (boomark / email).