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Hahaha I have a friend that actually just dropped out of law school and couldn't be more happy about it. I'll share this with him, pretty sure he is going to love it.
@bloodgo1: Smart man. :) I actually LOVED law school. Being a lawyer...not so much.
I loved law school, too! I just met my study group from law school for lunch today. We're all successful attorneys now but I really miss our law school days!
Hahaha! Coincidentally, my friend just sent me this article: http://abovethelaw.com/2010/10/not-in-kansas/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:
Ugh..funny to see when I am totally stressing about my LSAT score and applying to law school. Thankfully, I am American Indian and won't have to pay for law school, so all of that debt stuff won't apply.
@ILikePink: Don't do it! Just kidding :)
I really did love law school. From my experience, it's rare to find someone who is happy at a large firm. Although a lot of my friends started out at large firms, the majority have left four years after graduation. I do have friends who are doing public interest and government work who really enjoy their jobs. I've just personally discovered that my true interests lie elsewhere.
That's awesome about no debt for you!! Good luck!
haha i saw that yesterday and laughed my ass off!
And I'm with you guys. Loved law school (mostly). Not so much with the lawyering.
I'm not a lawyer, but I remember on "How I Met Your Mother" when Marshall was in law school and studying...singing his little song. It was something along the lines of "Staying home on a Friday night studying for my test...being a lawyer had better be awesome!".
@ILikePink: You're waiting for next Friday too, huh?
This sort of thing always makes me think that prior experience working in a firm (or with the government, a non-profti, etc.) ought to mandatory for all applicants.
Hah sheesh you people have me second guessing my career choice...lol.
Haha, I saw that on facebook yesterday. Hilarious. Like everyone else, I mostly loved law school. Actually practicing? Meh, no thanks.
OMG that was too funny. Sadly, the reason it is so funny is because it is so true...
Disclosure: I am an attorney who dislikes the practice of law.
Thanks ladies for scaring meee!! I just took lsats and I'm waiting back on scores to send out apps.
haha i feel like someone should start a poll for all the lawyer bees. Who loves their job, who likes their job, who is in it only because they can't afford to do anything else (loans, gr), and who got the hell out of dodge already :)
aww ill step in as the lawyer who liked law school and being a lawyer :)
although i could totally do without the student loan debt (and the bill that just came in today eeeeek!)
Do any of you other lawyer bees always get friends and acquaintances asking for advice on how to get into law school?
At first I was genuinely so excited to give tips and advice. Then I found myself plastering a fake smile on and saying things like, "Oh, that's great! I'm so glad for you! Heh, heh...eh..." Now I don't even bother with the pretenses, I'm just like, "Oh yeah? So why is it that you want to be a lawyer? You want to get rich quick while helping people? That's nice, but there's this thing called Reality..."
I recently got an email from an old acquaintance who told me his plan for becoming a lawyer. This is his grand scheme:
He was DEAD serious. I kid you not. I couldn't even make this up. Thank god he didn't tell me in person, because I don't know how I would have held in my hysterical laughter. I just told him, "First things first, eh? Write the LSAT."
I never heard from him again.
@jayce: Oh my lord. Umm...good luck to him. Isn't it crazy how excited everyone was to get big law firm offers, but then realized that it equaled no life and can't wait to get out? I used to buy $500 purses when I was working at midnight to make myself feel better. Yeah...I'm happier now being poor :)
@CorgiTales: I'm a lawyer bee who loves my job BUT that's because I left the big firm for a very small one! Thank goodness I did because now I feel like my work environment is actually "normal".
I LOVE this! I'm a lawyer bee marrying another lawyer and we actually both love our jobs now, but that's because we both recently got out of big firm defense-side litigation.
@jayce: his plan made me laugh out loud - im so shocked that you havent heard back from him haha
LOVE this!! Like all of you, loved school, hate practicing. i'm back in school so I can be a teacher.
I love being a lawyer, but I work as a public defender. Increadibly fulfilling work, if you have the stomach for it.
If I worked in a big firm I'd probably be hating life. Totally not my gig.
FWIW I don't work in a big firm I work in a small one. So it really isn't work/life balance for me at all because my job is not super demanding of my personal time. The thing I've come to realize is just that it is so draining to spend all day FIGHTING. My whole job is fighting and posturing and figuring out how to avoid getting screwed and how to screw over opposing counsel. Blech. Even when I feel like my client is 100% in the right (which how often does that happen), most of the time we can't prove it, or we can prove it but the defendant isn't collectible, etc. Sometimes I long for a job in which people aren't forever trying to get one over on each other.
@Corgitales: Ugh!! Whenever I start to feel that way I wonder whether I'm in the right profession to begin with! The truth is, is that when I was a law student I used to question whether I was cut out for the field since it involved so much fighting and screwing people over. Hate to admit this, but I think I've sort of gotten used to it.
Man, I would give anything not to have to pay for law school!!! I've had do it entirely out of loans, so I have to get a job in a career in a field which I can make good money rather than in Constitutional law, which is why I went to law school in the first place. I have a friend whose parents paid for her school, and I'm so jealous of the freedom she has in choosing her career because she doesn't have to worry about paying off $150,000 in debt!
I do sometimes wonder if I'm jumping out of the frying pan (nurse) and into the fire (lawyer), though...
I didn't really like law school. I became clinically depressed after my first semester. Still working on it, but I am much happier now.
I just graduated in May and the only law firm I've worked in was a small/mid-sized firm of about 16 attorneys. I'm actually not in the legal profession right now, but doing marketing. Every career has its ups and downs IMO...
Having never worked in BigLaw, the whole scenario described in the article on Above the Law is a myth to me. I'll take the lower salary for a smaller firm with reasonable hours any day of the week.
@hope1275: Okay, mine is the other way around. I live in NYC and lawyers here are a dime a dozen. I didn't graduate in the top of my class, neither did I go to a top law school. I don't really like the law anymore. My mother, God bless her, is a nurse and she keeps telling me to go to nursing school. I don't know that I want to. But the thought of being a lawyer for the rest of my life depresses the hell out of me. I've paid back over 60k and I still owe A LOT OF MONEY. I loved law school, but if I had to do it again, I'd go to a state school and not borrow quite as much. It's the loans that are killing me. They are killing me!!!
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Lawyers who don't actually like being a lawyer will probably find this amazing (and at least partially true).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMvARy0lBLE&feature=player_embedded