gj Michelob -> RE: Shop assistant? (Sep. 1 2014 19:28:35)
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I will not dwell on the heartbreaking news you shared, Ethan, save for expressing my affectionate solidarity and prayers. On the subject of an "apprentice" I will share my two cents: An apprentice will rejuvenate you and your work, not unlike when you show around your city to a foreigner, and as you see it through the visitor's eyes, you rediscover every single and beautiful detail you were taking for granted. Apprentices come and go, true; however, you want them to, because nothing will give you more satisfaction than to see your "disciples" unfold their wings as you taught them to, and take on their own flight. New apprentices will come and spin the wheel of the rejuvenation cycle again and again. I have always kept "one" intern/apprentice at my firm. Most of them made it to prestigious law schools and are now at great law firms. But all of them, on occasion, will send me a thank you note for affording them that opportunity. A few things in life have repaid me more than those expressions of gratitude. Every apprentice left a few words of advice for the next, always the same admonishment, creating a little tradition: "if you work for gj, you'll go home crying every night for about a month, but if you survive, he will turn you into a lawyer." They now are, each of them, somehow, my own children… Godspeed.
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