Just watched a luxury YouTuber do a Q&A about her life & job. She hasn’t done very much personal videos / shows luxury content with minimal personal details. Anyway she mentioned she went to law school and has had a long career in the legal field (15 years). But she clarifies that she’s not an attorney. She works in law related areas and she’s private about it because of the confidential nature of her work. This is a good example how normal people describe your career factually while being private.
I know a lot of people think we’re too hard on Elle about lying about her career. But it’s really abnormal and dishonest. The most annoying part is that she loves talking about women in law, attrition rates, glass ceilings in the workplace - to somehow excuse her choice of choosing to leave practice AND to equate her investigator job with that of in-house counsel. But she never even practiced law (her only time at a law firm is when she trained to be a lawyer - as an articling student). It’s just ridiculous to cite these things when you never actually worked in a law practice. The audacity to draw equivalents is so insane to me. How can you even dare to pretend to relate to these hardworking women ? There’s no glass ceiling to speak off when you haven’t even entered the field
We discussed why she didn’t continue practice. She left the firm immediately after getting called to the bar (the Articling period ends). this suggests she wasn’t offered a job. most people would accept even if they didn’t want to continue as a lawyer in the long term as having experience sets you up for any career later on. There’s a chance she was offered an opportunity to continue but she didn’t accept. I think she wasn’t prepared for the amount of hard work as a lawyer and wanted an alternative. There is about a 4-5 months gap after the articling stint before she starts the law investigator job. From the gap, it looks like she probably was trying to find a job.
Also I think it’s been mentioned several times here that many of us have similar backgrounds to Elle, very educated for our jobs, chose a less stressful path etc no one judges at all. The difference is that most people with similar circumstances would just be grateful to have been lucky enough to have the choice, and are aware of our privileges. We do not need to embellish to secure the validation of others, we don’t use this fake image to scam naive viewers and we most certainly do not make condescending comments about how hard we work or how difficult it is to survive in x industry.
At least she wouldn't have to beg Seattle men for attention.
