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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 16h

BoomerVille. No sustained sense of financial security.

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Dow Jones Industrial Average DJI: ^DJI 45,682.88 -384.7 (-0.84%) As of Tue. Oct 14, 2025 9:32 AM EDT · Free Realtime Quote (USD) · Market...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 16h

The 2025 mantra for despair among knowledge workers is: I'll never work again.

But Home Depot has come to the rescue. At least for those willing to change. Its Path to Pro offers free training and certifications in home-improvement trades.

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Hope, From Home Depot

"I might never work again." Too often that lack of hope comes up in tarot readings. It is symbolized by The Nine of Wands card. But what t...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 1d

Law firms such as Paul, Weiss and Sullivan & Cromwell have set loose student recruiters at law schools. They are 3Ls who have already received an offer from one of the firms.

Could this implode?

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Paul Weiss Uses Peer-to-Peer Recruitment - How Could This Turn Out ...

Abovethelaw's mission is informing and advocating for law students and junior lawyers. So both groups should pay attention to ATL's exclusi...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 1d

In February 2022, Politico broke the story of a Wiki anonymous hacker. That was Matteo Godi. Despite that, he managed to hang onto his job at Paul Weiss. In July 2025, he moved on.
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Matteo Godi - Where Is He Now ...

Former clerk for current SOTUS Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson Matteo Godi had already been working as an associate (start date January 2021...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 1d

Big Oil is in a lot of financial distress. That's spilling over to employees who have been laid off, investors who might lose their dividend and contractors who haven't been paid.

But insulated are the large law firms which service Big Oil.

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Big Oil, Big Financial Distress - Its Law Firms Insulated from the Catastrophe

Back in 2022, there were those "monster profits"in Big Oil. That generated lots of transactional work for large law firms. At the top of t...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 1d

Big Oil is in a lot of financial distress. That's spilling over to employees who have been laid off, investors who might lose their dividend and contractors who haven't been paid.

But insulated are the large law firms which service Big Oil.

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Big Oil, Big Troubles - But Big Law Might Be Sitting Pretty (except of a haircut)

Back in 2022, there were those "monster profits"in Big Oil. That generated lots of transactional work for large law firms. At the top of the...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 1d

There's plenty of pain in the oil patch - and other businesses associated with it. Like Big Tech, Big Oil went from prestige, plum jobs and fat-and-happy investors to something very scary. And the reversal of fortune could worsen.

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Big Oil - Contractors Not Paid, Job Losses, Possible Dividend Cuts

"The client in Kansas owes us $75,000. For eight months we've been trying to collect." That's what a contractor to Big Oil told me during ou...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 1d

BoomerVille will remember this Columbus Day. See, the next shoe didn't drop. That is, in wiping out our nest eggs. Right now Smoot-Hawley 2.0 doesn't seem on its way. Futures are up. Trade tensions with China are down.

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BoomerVille on Columbus Day: The Next Shoe Didn't Drop, At Least Not Today

Maybe we students of global economic history don't have to worry, at least not yet, about Smoot-Hawley 2.0. On Truth Social, US President ...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 2d

Over the years Smoot-Hawley had been a metaphor for the perils of excess protectionism/trade wars.

Now, after Friday's almost 900-point in the Dow, the focus has turned concrete. There's even a term for that: Smoot-Hawley 2.0. Can Big Law hold up?

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Smoot-Hawley 2.0 & Big Law: We Don't Know

For decades. the metaphor of the global economic devastation generated by Smoot-Hawley has been tossed about. During the second Trump admin...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 2d

Is that sharing about your unemployment - LinkedIn, BusinessInsider and more - landing you work. Could that be actually creating a liability in your job search. Employers hire the employed. Grab work. Any kind. Work gets you work.

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Sharing Your Job Search on LinkedIn, BusinessInsider and More - That Might Not Be Effective Pitch

In May 2025 Ian Carter was laid off from Microsoft. Since then he's been doing what more job searchers are embracing: Sharing their hunt ...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 2d

Okay, October 1, 2025 was a very bad day in the stock market. Investors, including we in BoomerVille, lost $2 trillion. The dread is: Not only will there be many more very bad days. But all the days will be very bad for a long time.
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BoomerVille: Our $2 Trillion Bad Day and Is The End Near

October 10, 2025, a very bad Friday. Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that that China was getting very "hostile." The administration w...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 3d

I can't accept that Diane Keaton died. She was "only" 79. I'm 80 and drove seven hours today to Erie, PA to buy a used Toyota. Keaton should have been doing something equally energetic.

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 3d

Paul, Weiss, Skadden and Kirkland & Ellis stand up to the three Dems questioning if their pro bono work for the administration is illegal.

So, why might we be reading into this assertiveness?

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No, Pro Bono Assignments for Administration Not Illegal - Paul, Weiss, Skadden, Kirkland & Ellis Tell Those Three Pesky Dems

Recall those annoying three Dems who decided to question some law firms who had made deals with the Trump administration about pro bono as...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 3d

In the good old days we could smoothly navigate around the hiring panel's or prospective client's determination to pick our brains. We learned how to provide just enough to demonstrate that we knew our stuff.

That was then.

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Of Course, They're Picking Your Brain - So, What to Do?

In public relations, ranging from looking for a job or pitching to a prospect, there was an old saying: Sure, provide ideas. That's necessa...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 3d

Apollo CEO Marc Rowan helped create Trump administration's Compact for higher education. Here's his op-ed on that. dnyuz.com/2025/10/10/a...

Academia Is Broken. Trump’s University ‘Compact’ Can Help Fix It.

Last week the Trump administration sent letters to a group of presidents of universities proposing a set of principles that

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 3d

Almost half of the trades for "house calls" use AI. Right now that's a happy story. Time saved. Revenue boosted.

But, no one knows the longer-term impact on jobs in the trades. Just consider how AI opens the door to DIY.

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Will We Be Doing DIY Plumbing and More? Take a Photo and See What AI Comes Up With

It shouldn't be a newsflash that the trades, including plumbers, are using AI. That extends from administrative work and marketing to re...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 4d

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 4d

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 4d

Political publication The Hill calls it: Social media could become the "Next Tobacco." The contention is that social media, like tobacco, is addictive. Algorithms unleash anger and that rage releases dopamine which hooks us.
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Social Media - Next Tobacco, Lead Paint, Oxycodone as Public Nuisance?

It's in the public interest. That could be how the plaintiff bar, lawmakers and activists move the needle in activating or threatening to ...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 4d

BoomerVille: Smug shifting to a mindset of what's-going-on ...
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BoomerVille - Dow on a Downer

Dow Jones Industrial Average DJI: ^DJI 45,861.70 -496.72 (-1.07%) As of Fri. Oct 10, 2025 12:15 PM EDT · Free Realtime Quote (USD) · Mark...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 5d

Why so much drama? The decision of nine law firms to negotiate with the White House is even being sized up a Greek tragedy.

What could be keeping the current show going is this: fear of embracing what business is really all about.

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Executive Orders as Greek Tragedy? But If You Cut Through the Drama, Like the NY Supreme Court Did ...

There's a stunner of a long shelf life for the controversy surrounding law firms' decisions about how to navigate the spring 2025 White Hous...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 5d

Unforgiveable is cruelty to dogs, right. They're the most vulnerable creatures in our society.

Well, the Toledo Humane Society is establishing a full-service rehab centers for those dogs who have been abused or neglected.

Unsupported client – Canva

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 5d

"Davos" used to be shorthand for the pricey prestigious annual meeting in Switzerland sponsored by WEF.
Now, reputational damage is setting in. The latest is the FT positioning what comes from Davos is form of "soft dictatorship."
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Do Investors Want the C-Suite to Skip Davos in 2026?

"Davos" used to be shorthand for the pricey prestigious global networking winter event in Switzerland. Sponsored by the World Economic Foru...

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Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 6d

Profile in Courage: Gov. JB Pritzker. You bet, I would vote for him for US President in 2028.

Making a Good Living, No Matter What @janegenova.bsky.social · 6d

Traditionally the largest law firm in the world Kirkland & Ellis gushed about the size of its partner class.

This year it is totally silent, contending that lack of transparency is part of a strategic shift.

So, what could be going on?

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Paul, Weiss Rival Kirkland & Ellis - Partner Troubles?

With so much turmoil in Big Law during 2025 we should be beyond being stunned. Those earlier shocks, ranging from Executive Orders to a US...

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