I was just thinking yesterday about my still-stalled practice and started chuckling on considering that I lack nothing but the capital to operate and the skill with which to succeed.
That's not quite fair to myself. I have both some skill and a small pool of money. But it seemed like a funny way to look at it.
This may seem like an obnoxious question or perhaps ridiculously naive, but hear me out. I worked on a couple of cases for some PI attys just to try to learn a little about the practice. The guys were lovely, but the dynamics of the case weirded me out, and particularly that a teenage passenger in a car had been made to go do these random expensive injections on a lien. I'm not a doctor, but it strongly felt to me like this kid's body was essentially getting used as a way to increase thecase value.
At any rate, those experiences made me feel uneasy about the whole field, and I distanced myself from that work. I can't decide if my weirded out feeling was justified, or if I've unconsciously internalized the do-almost- nothing bias of Kaiser, or what. Does PI practice inevitably involve this sort of thing, and how do you think about it?