Are there lawyers in his family? I think his dad worked at Cray Computers in the 80's and 90's (which is pretty cool, actually), and I don't think his mom was in law. The story he always told was that he was stuck in dreadful low paying banking jobs and Law School was the only career option where his shitty Liberal Arts degree would have any use to him. Ty is a friend of the family, not family. He had wealthy grandparents, but he said they had built some kind of business.
Nick went to college in 2001. He went to a dead-end state college in the middle of nowhere and got a degree in creative writing. He then got a job as a bank teller at a Wells Fargo branch. He then moved from there to a customer service position at a financial services company catering mostly to small-time retirement accounts.
He quit that job in 2010 and went to law school in his 30s. Full time, it took him at least four years.
After law school, he became a solo practitioner. He did a handful of very ordinary cases up to 2018. And since then, the best that could be said is that practicing law has not taken up alot of his time.
His grandfather from Tyler (the one with the money) was a Chemical Engineer who graduated from Rice and worked his way up from engineer to company executive.
His father did work at a Cray Research in a technical position.
Nick is a lazy guy who can never have been said to have been "burdened" by anything in life. He wasn't forced into the law. He didn't make much of any effort in the law. If his family were in the law, he would not have become a solo practitioner on graduation.
Nobody can seriously listen to this guy who works as a hobby, lives in a big house paid for by family money and has a wife who also doesn't work talk about how burdened he is by life and children.
His first problem is that he doesn't seem to know what to do with himself. He doesn't work in a serious way and his life is mostly play. Lots of people can't handle that and go in bad directions. His second problem is alcoholism. He is at an age where the alcoholism catches up with people like him and they spiral.
This isn't an uncommon path. He is going to train wreck. Its just a matter of when the wheels completely fall off. This is all rich guy problems.
>Nick, Nick, you KNOW I'm into the lifestyle and we gotta talk cause that's not something I want for her that's not something I want for YOU
>Uhum... Yeah...
