Wanna feel like you are wasting your life? Like you aren’t really accomplishing much slaving away at an office while the seasons pass outside your window?
Meet Jack Chen. Yeah, he is a lawyer — Fordham Law alum — who put in his time at big firms, a combination of Baker Botts and Kenyon & Kenyon. But he has finally broken into the promised land of in-house work. Now he is product counsel for Google’s Chrome, meaning he “quarterbacks” all legal issues surrounding the product. Pretty cool, right?
Well, he isn’t done being badass.
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According to a recent profile in Big Law Business, Chen has also competed in five triathlons — including two Iron Mans (which consist of a 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bicycle ride, and a 26.2-mile run). And he’s gotten to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, and he did it, according to his assistant, “Because it’s there.”
Binge-watching season 2 of Daredevil on Netflix doesn’t seem like quite the accomplishment anymore, does it?
Oh, and Chen happens to be blind. (You can keep your Matt Murdock jokes to yourself, I am sure he’s heard them all before.)
In the video below, Chen describes some of the unique challenges he faces — commuting, redlining, and researching — as well as the creative solutions he employs to conquer those tasks. Chen says those little workarounds that are a part of his daily life help him in his job at Google.
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So take a look at how Chen goes about his day; it is a lot more interesting that deciding what to order from Seamless.
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