Committing to expose yourself to both the elements and Jeff Probst for weeks and yet we all know that Biglaw is still more dehumanizing.
That’s the takeaway from this this interview with upcoming contestant Kyle Fraser, an attorney from Virginia who was asked by Entertainment Weekly to decide on a brutal punishment for themselves if they end up being voted out first. While some promised to give up weed for two years or stop watching Survivor (sounds like a reward to me), Fraser knew the unspeakable horror he’d subject himself to if the castaways boot him first:
I have done white collar criminal defense at larger firms, which I very much enjoyed, but I want to eventually segue to more of a public interest job. My fiancée has given me this leeway, and my expectation is to bring home the gold on Survivor. That said, if I get voted out first and I don’t get that gold, then I’m working at a big law firm. That’s my punishment. I know that’s really lame and corny, but I’m going to go make the big bucks. I’m going to give myself a little bit of license to not try and save the world just yet. I’m going to go grind it out at a law firm and try and make the big bucks. That’s my punishment. Any lawyer knows that that’s a pretty difficult thing to do.
Some EW reader will confront you as their lawyer friend and sneer that “his PUNISHMENT is making more money” and you will be magically transported to that jungle and go full Colonel Kurtz softly repeating, “the horror… the horror….”
Good luck, Kyle. All the snake bites and malnourishment is worth it.
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