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Environmental Law |
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keep your engineer salary |
| Date Posted: |
03/12/2002 |
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Thank you for your previous posts on this thread. Since that time, my chances at the top 14 have dwindled and I have been leaning toward foregoing law school altogether. But I was just given a free ride to Lewis & Clark to study environmental law. Realizing that enviro law is not hot, do you think it is worth it to give up my enviro engineering job ($60K) to study for free at Lewis & Clark, if not just to broaden my enviro consulting qualifications? You have mentioned that public interest and government environmental lawyers earn public interest and government dollars. How does that compare to an engineering salary (in three years I will probably be making $75K if I keep working as an engineer)? |
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Law school "tuition free" isn't really free at all.
You have to forgo three years of salary and still pay for your living expenses. You'll still have to take out student loans to pay for this, or use up whatever savings you have.
Don't give up what sounds like a pretty good career where you will be making $75K in three years in order to go to law school where you may graduate and wind up making less than that, and with big debts to pay off.
I bet there are environmental engineers that make six figures, and six figures is more than most lawyers will ever see.
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