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A Little Perspective.... |
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thank you |
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03/15/2002 |
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I'd like to offer some perspective from one who has been in the workforce for nearly 40 years.
Do you love it? I mean really love the law? Or just the idea of being a lawyer? If you love the law, and the Constitution, go for it. If not, go to B-school, be a CPA, whatever.
Get into the best school you can get into and that makes sense for you financially. Of course, go to Yale, Harvard, whatever. If you love the law it will all work out.
I know people who went to what you guys/gals would think of as cheeseball law schools - Univ. of San Diego!!! Not even on the charts! But they get lovely jobs in lovely firms in San Diego, live in La Jolla, and laugh at everybody freezing their asses off in biglaw firms in NY.
There's no ONE, etched in stone way to do it. Live your life. Do what you love, in a town you are thrilled to get up and greet every day. Let the good times Roll. Lighten Up, kids!!! It's gonna work out. Good Luck!
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for your message. I especially appreciated the part about loving the law, the idea of being a lawyer. Frankly, I don't understand 80% of the people who post here who are dying to practice BIG LAW. I have friends from the top THREE law schools in the country who liked law school but hate practicing corporate law. Really, what is the big deal about this? It sounds so incredibly boring.
I actually applied to a bunch of law schools this year, and frankly, I really don't know if I want to go. Clerking, working for the DOJ, international public law - these sound interesting to me. However I know that the realities of the nitty-gritty law, admin. nightmares, debt will get to me.
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