[quote=Myriad][quote=bearishgurl]Um, flu, I don’t know what you’ve been smoking but “Chinese people” don’t do my job. I’m sure they exist … somewhere, but I’ve never met a Chinese person who is in my occupation. At least not in San Diego, where I work. A lot of stuff I do requires very strong English dictation, reading, writing and composition skills on frequently difficult material which has to be in a special format. Sorry to burst your bubble but people who immigrated here from China could not do it.[/quote]
That’s borderline racist. Just because you haven’t met any does not mean someone from China doesn’t have the language skills to do a similar job.[/quote]
Actually, BG is right. Most Chinese people don’t do her job. Because most chinese american parents tell their kids if they want to pursue the legal profession, go to law school and finish and be a real lawyer.
Two of my best friends both were born in mainland china and only came to the US for about 6 years, before they wanted to something else. Both had PHD’s in bioengineering. Both ended up decided they wanted to be patent attorneys when they were in their late 30ies. Both took about 3 years to finish law school part time while working (both put in a lot of time an effort)..Both work in DC now as real attorneys..
Funny how that works out BG. People who’s English isn’t the first language ended up becoming real lawyers, who are a lot younger, who immigrated here, who’s English you think is worse than yours..Folks that had a much later start than you did….And yet, they are real lawyers…Why? Again, very simple. They wanted to pursue a law degree, they wanted to pass Bar, they wanted to become real practicing attorneys. You didn’t. They put in the time and effort, you chose not to. So their job, they didn’t “steal from you”. You didn’t put the time and effort to try to obtain it. And they certainly aren’t trying to “steal” your job right now either.
