MDK said:

>In a message dated 4/12/98 8:43:38 AM EST, [log in to unmask] writes:
>
>>  my
>>  son claims that he was surrounded by four architects who mutually
>>  advised him to NEVER take up the profession of architecture. They
>>  particularly complained to him about the problem of getting paid by
>>  lawyers.
>
>Interesting what we tell our (or anyone else's children) about our
>professions.  In my experience, lawyers also advise their children NEVER to
>become lawyers (having survived a bout with that profession, I can readily
>attest to that advice). I wonder what investment bankers tell their children .

"Here's your inheritance...I just died at 43 from cardiac arrest due to the
stress of selling off my entire stock portfolio expecting this bull market
to nose dive and the Dow just broke the 10,000 mark."

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Raleigh Historic                                 heretics live on forever"
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