r/LiveFromNewYork • u/barrie2k • Aug 01 '24

Punkie Johnson is leaving SNL! Cast News

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According to this tweet (that I’m totally ripping, thx twitter user @swws2039) she’s leaving SNL before season 50. Replies from other audience members confirmed! Thoughts? I believe this

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u/roehnin Aug 01 '24

Lawyer? Many of my lawyer friends have the same reaction.

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u/therealvanmorrison Aug 01 '24

Yup! I’m still in. But my friends are mostly gone.

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u/roehnin Aug 01 '24

My lawyer girlfriend talked me out of law school

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u/OMP159 Aug 01 '24

Damn, she's good.

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u/BustinArant Aug 01 '24

Must have been a prosecutor

..because they're so good

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u/Natural_Raspberry993 Aug 01 '24

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u/jacksonnobody Aug 01 '24

This is exactly where my head went.

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u/Puzzleheaded_Age_158 Aug 01 '24

Honestly thought it's painful how accurate the song is.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

Where is it from

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u/Puzzleheaded_Age_158 Aug 04 '24

Crazy Ex Girlfriend an underrated masterpiece of a show

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u/ICantFekkingRead Aug 01 '24

My lawyer ex talked me out of dating her.

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u/PuffyTacoSupremacist Aug 01 '24

A family friend encouraged me to work in BigLaw before going to law school. A year of being a law clerk and I never considered it again.

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u/rekipsj Aug 01 '24

You won't regret the decision.

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u/PuffyTacoSupremacist Aug 01 '24

That was almost 15 years ago and I have zero regrets.

Ironically I work in legal consulting now, but not as a lawyer.

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u/[deleted] Aug 04 '24

Good $$?

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u/Ok_Bodybuilder800 Aug 01 '24

I ended up in docketing and zero regrets about not going to law school or even becoming a paralegal for that matter 😂

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u/Soft_Rip_166 Aug 01 '24

Ok Bodybuilder800

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u/THound89 Aug 02 '24

My non-lawyer father keeps trying to talk me into it

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u/FaustinoAugusto234 Aug 02 '24

Unfortunately my GF at the time talked me into law school. Twenty years of my life wasted. Been clean for five years now.

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u/coldliketherockies Aug 01 '24

May I ask why it’s talked about so hatefully compared to maybe other professional jobs? My brother in law is a lawyer and while he doesn’t complain much out loud I think the hours bother him greatly ?

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u/therealvanmorrison Aug 01 '24

Oh man. I could write a book.

It’s not just that the hours are long, it’s that you’re on call 24/7. You could get dumped with 6 hours of work at 10pm. That shit happens. And it’s worse when you’re junior, both because your work product sucks and will get torn to shreds/you barely know what you’re doing, and because there are like six people above you throwing shit down on you.

Lots and lots of clients and senior lawyers are total dicks. That’s a big part of it. The kind of stuff you see on Reddit where people complaining their boss is mean - almost every single time, it’s 10% of biglaw mean.

Much of the work is dry and boring until you get senior enough to lead the complex, interesting work.

The traditional payoff for all this was making partner one day and getting rich, but now almost no one makes partner, and when you do, you’re a “non equity partner” for however many extra years and aren’t getting rich rich, just enough that when your spouse leaves and takes half, you still get to drive an old BMW.

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u/Quackular Aug 01 '24

Man, being a lawyer is such a trap haha. I knew I never wanted nor did I have the ability to do Big Law, and I have never regretted that decision. When people hear the starting salaries of junior attorneys at those firms, they are surprised why I never had aspirations to go there. For me, no money in the world is being completely burnt out before I turn 30. People outside of the legal world really just don't understand how awful those jobs are. I'm happy making half of the big law associates but having the ability to work relatively normal hours and have a realistic shot at partner in a few years at the small-medium firm I'm at.

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u/smart_cereal Aug 05 '24

What branch you work in can differ in experience. Family law can be extremely stressful while wills and trust is generally more lax.

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u/woozybag Aug 01 '24

Sounds like big law to me!

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u/accountantdooku Aug 01 '24

Very much big law. 

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u/smart_cereal Aug 05 '24

Yes. The money sounds good but there’s no boundaries with work/life balance. My partner is expected to work at any hour, on weekends, holidays, etc. He’s looking to get out and it’s only been a few years because a colleague just dropped dead from a heart attack and other staff members have reported cardiac issues since working in the field. One of our friends looks like they’ve aged by at least ten years and this is someone younger than us. It’s a brutal environment that doesn’t favor having functional relationships or a fulfilling life.

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u/roehnin Aug 05 '24

I had an interest in the field and at around 27 planned to go back to school so took my LSAT and got accepted to a school, which is when I [proudly] told my lawyer then-gf.

She strongly advised me to rethink that plan. Burnout and health and life balance were key points in her condemnation of the field. She now works as a real estate agent instead.