Back to School and Blog Musings

I like my job.  I don’t like everything about it, of course, but I like the fact that I have a job.  I like being an attorney (some days), and I feel like I’m working in a place and at a job that, for the most part, does good work.  For some reason, though, I have a hard time sitting still.  So I’m going back to school.

I don’t necessarily think that going back to school is a good idea.  Especially if you already have an advanced degree.  How many advanced degrees do you need?  How many letters do you need behind your name?  How necessary are all those letters?

For whatever reason, I’ve gotten it in my head recently that I’d like to be an estate planning attorney (it combines so many of my interests) rather than a litigation attorney.  There are a lot of things I like about litigation.  There are some things I don’t like.  I feel like estate planning is an area where you get to help people and get to be the good guy most of the time.

To be an estate planning attorney is to be a tax attorney.  For that reason, I’m going back to school to get my LLM in taxation.  An LLM is a specialized research degree that you can get after you have a JD.  I’m fortunate and proud to say that I’m getting it at what I consider to be a prestigious university (it is, at least, the best school I’ve ever had the privilege to go to).

So I’m excited about the challenge.  I’m excited to learn something new.  And I know it will mean that I have some new and (hopefully) interesting things to talk about on the blog.  If I keep learning fresh and interesting things, I can share them hear.  I think it will keep my message from getting stale.

On the other hand, it’s not like I don’t already have enough to do.  Between my job, my wife, two rental units, our house, this blog, and what for me is a fairly active social life, and two other “projects” – it’s going to be tough.  I’m hoping that it won’t negatively affect the frequency of my posts.  We’ll see.

In any case, I’m going to do my best to deliver quality content on this site.  Not everything has worked out exactly to plan.  I’m supposed to be delivering an interview every month, but haven’t posted one since September.  I have one set up to happen around Thanksgiving that I think we’re going to try to do on video.  It should be a good one.

It also hasn’t worked out exactly as planned with the new contributors.  They are literally the best people I could find to write for this site.  Unfortunately, (or fortunately) that also means that their time is in demand.  They are busy people  The plan now is that you’ll see a post from RJ Scaringe (a tech entrepreneur with a PhD in mechanical engineering) later this week, and a post from Katie Fink (an MBA/CPA that works in corporate America) sometime in December.  Josh (an actor running a couple of small businesses on the side), our third writer, should debut sometime around then as well.  We’ll see how it plays out.  If you’re new to the blog, I hope you’ll come back.  If you read this blog regularly, thank you, and I hope you’ll keep coming back.  I’ll try to make it work your 5 minutes;)  Thanks for reading.

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