Tom talks about the moment that he decided that he wanted to be a lawyer

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Attorney Tom Olsen: My father was a lawyer here in Orlando since the mid-'50s. He retired in 1986. As a young boy here in Orlando growing up, my father had an office in downtown Orlando, and he would work on Saturday mornings, and I would go down to the office with them on Saturday mornings.
Attorney Holley Knapik: Ah, going along on Saturday. Good.
Tom: Hey, guess what my job was while he's meeting with clients?
Holley: I think yours was policing the ground.
Tom: Yes. Trash patrol.
Holley: [laughs] Trash patrol.
Tom: Yes. He had an office on Rosalind Avenue in downtown Orlando and Lake Eola. I'd be out patrolling and looking for trash.
Holley: Looking for trach, yes [chuckles].
Tom: He also had a pool table in his office, not in literally in his office, but in his office building. I'd be up there playing pool or hanging out and just-- What else to do on a Saturday morning back in the day? It's not like you had cell phones and computers to play on.
Holley: Exactly right. What did you do? No Atari back-- [chuckles]
Tom: The other thing is, I'm sure I've talked to people about this before, but on the way home, he would always-- so now we're talking noonish or so and he'd stopped off at a Tom's hideaway bar, and he would have a beer, and he would chat with all the people in a bar, and he always put salt on his beer and foam it up I guess. Every once in a while, we talk about it on the radio and people say, "Yes, I knew somebody that used to put salt on the foam on their beer." I'd have a soda, of course. That was my Saturday mornings.
Holley: That is so cool, that memory. You have that memory, and granted dad was doing his thing, but you were in the presence of dad. You were hanging with dad.
Tom: I'm going to tell a story again, and it's just it means a lot to me, and that is that- so one day on a Saturday, he's meeting with a client, I'm doing trash patrol behind some bushes that he had, picking up trash. I see these two boys go riding by on their bikes. We're talking downtown Orlando. We're talking '65 or something, 1965. The boys don't know I'm there. One of the boys says to the other boy, he goes, "That's Robert Olson's office. He's a lawyer. My dad says he's the best lawyer in Orlando."
Holley: Oh, wow.
Tom: That was the moment that I knew that I wanted to be a lawyer.
Holley: Wow.
Tom: That was the deciding factor.
Holley: Hearing that about your dad.
Tom: Yes. Growing up at the table and my mom and dad had four kids, and basically we would eat our meal while he would sit back and give us lectures.
Holley: [laughs]
Tom: We had numbers for these lectures. These were recurring lectures. This is lecture number five or lecture number eight. We knew what they were, or lectures and lessons. One of his lessons was kids, you don't necessarily have to be a lawyer, but getting a law degree is going to serve you no matter what you do.
Holley: No matter what you do.
Tom: I think that that's wise advice. I have met people over the years that they have a law degree. They're not necessarily a lawyer, but whatever industry they're in, having a law degree counts for a lot of weight and will serve you well.
Holley: Yes, serve you well. Absolutely. I agree.
Tom: I heard one the other day that he is a professor and because he has a doctorate, he's got a JD and he gets paid more as that simply by having a law degree.
Holley: Yes. "JD advantage," they call it sometimes.