There was a time when I fancied myself as a barrister but it takes years to qualify and even then you can end up earning less than $10, 000 a day. So when I saw an advertisement for a course to become a barista I decided to settle for that.

Michael McGirr
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You may have started off as a barrister, but you ended up as a barista. There was a time when you fancied yourself as a barrister but it takes years to qualify and even then you can end up earning less than $10,000 a day. So when I saw an advertisement for a course to become a barista I decided to settle for that. In other words, your life changed from what you had imagined and became something better.

Source: The Lost Art Of Sleep

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