HOLY FUCK
Is there any reason to not become a lawyer?
HOLY FUCK
Hunter Peterson
Adrian Murphy
debt and a saturated market
Carson Ortiz
there are no jobs unless you graduate top of your class at a top school like colombia or harvard
even if you do then:
>$250,000 debt
>3 years of not having a social life
>forced to work in a large city where taxes and cost of living eat up 70% of your income, the student loans eat up the other 30%
it's a terrible idea
Elijah Adams
Interested in buying some land in Florida?
Owen Morris
Lawyer here
My starting was 36k
Articles like those are PR jobs by law schools to get gullible idiots to pay them 50k for a worthless degree.
Matthew Howard
50k a year* of course
Charles Ortiz
Same. This.
Hudson Collins
>Top of the market
OP confirmed illiterate.
Landon Rogers
>going to shitter schools
forbes.com
Almost all of the top schools start at 160k. University of Virginia, which has a guaranteed admission program, starts at 117k. Almost all of them have a 90%+ rate of employment.
Henry Robinson
> top law schools
case in point you fucking retard
if you go to a regular state university you'll be lucky to earn above minimum wage when you give up job searching after 3 years to become a public defender
Jason Edwards
So is there any reason to not become a lawyer if you can get into a top school?
Kayden Walker
>not wanting to defend terrorists
>not wanting to defend child molesters
Hudson Brown
The market is not just saturated, it's hyper-saturated due to every Hollywood movie for the last 40 or so years memeing the stereotype of a wealthy lawyer. Basically this
Jack Rodriguez
Go for it
Anthony Sanders
What this guy said.
I know quite a few lawyers. All of them have ended up pretty well, but to quote my friend "if I put as much work onto selling vacuums as I did becoming a lawyer, if still make as much as I do now"
Michael Peterson
Hey guys. I've wanted to be a lawyer as long as I can remember. Not just because of the meme, but I've always been big into argument, rhetoric and public speaking. I am currently doing a bachelor's in Psychology and plan on following up with Law.
Keep in mind, I am a Quebec resident in Canada, currently it costs me about 2k CAD a semester to go to school, and I plan on studying law at McGill, which should end up costing me around the same.
Is it really that harsh out there for aspiring lawyers? Is it worth it? I currently have been working on my own side ventures while going to school, in the goal of not having to work in the future. I'd still like to know what my chances are with law.
Thanks bros
Aaron Bennett
>2017
>not trading meme coins
Jonathan Evans
Crowded field
Robert Cox
>Implying most lawyers are defense attorneys
How stupid are you, exactly?
Jacob Hall
Lawyer here
In Germany you make this kind of money in your first year. But only if you are in the best 10 % of your class. It takes an average of 7 years (at least) to finish your studies and about 40% do not pass their exams at all...
Still, you work like 12 hours a day, often on the weekend. If you start working as a well paid carpenter at the age of 16 you will very likely make more over the years..
Gavin Lewis
Relative of mine is a partner at a firm in the UK. From the sounds of it the market is saturated, and the number of openings for solicitors is set to decline as more and more work is automated (no I am not memeing) or delegated to paralegals.
Ryan Perez
age and current school?
i also live in Montreal