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Jason


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MorisUkunRasik wrote:

Serious time.


I've heard nothing but horror stories involving going to law school. The other board I go to has a community of guys who went to law school and consider it to be the biggest mistake of their lives. There's crazy amounts of lawyers, few positions and insane amounts of debt.

What happened to teaching, I thought you wanted to teach philosophy or some such thing.

 

I didn't get into a good enough grad school for philosophy, so I cut my losses and got a job at a law firm (which I loved). Now I'm in law school.

 

A lot of people regret going to law school, for a number of reasons:

1. The legal market is not in great shape, so people without high-paying jobs have trouble paying off their loans. 

2. People often go to law school because they don't know what they want out of life, and they are disappointed that law school didn't help them sort things out.

3. Turns out, being a lawyer is demanding and not as exciting as TV suggests.

 

These concerns don't scare me for several reasons:

1. I know what lawyers do, and I know I want to do that.

2. The legal market is recovering, and firms are hiring larger numbers of freshly-minted lawyers.

3. I'm not entering the market for 2.5 years (+1 if I clerk for a judge), when I expect both legal hiring and the economy in general to be in better shape.

4. I'm at a school with an invariably good job placement record (Harvard), and my grades don't suck.



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MorisUkunRasik


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From what I gathered going to a good school means a whole lot when it comes to law and getting a position after graduation. Good luck, in 3 years or so I should be done with my schooling (accounting) and we can be (awkward) LA Ballaz together.

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MorisUkunRasik


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I can relate to first career options not panning out. I studied real estate with the intention of practicing for a living. But the market out here is so dry, it used to be you just had to distribute your information around and people would contact you and vets would rely on word of mouth and walk ins, but the vets have had to act like new agents to stay afloat and new agents can't get steady work without literally being given clients.

Luckily I've been an accounting clerk since I was 18 and my real estate license and experience should help me differentiate myself from other graduates when the time comes.

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john31584


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Good luck with law.

I'm entering my third year as a lawyer, and I'm about ready to throw in the towel.

I would give almost anything for a chance to undo my decision to go to law school, or at least do a few things while I was there.

If I had any other marketable skills, I'd probably have thrown in the towel on looking for a real law job at least a year ago.

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