Any lawfags in here...

Any lawfags in here? I've been thinking about law school for the past month now and now I'm at the point where I am seriously considering it. Should I do it?

yea, if you like being a bartista with 150k in debt then go ahead.

It's perhaps one of the single worst choices any person could make right now.

It's on par with saying you want to be a famous novelist. It's.. possible, but it's gonna be a long time before it stops being a gruelling nightmare, and even then it's like a 0.001% chance of success.

Don't listen to these guys.

Market's iffy, but if you know people that are well situated you'll have no problem landing a job. Look for schools in areas in which you can imagine yourself putting down roots. If nothing else, the state ALWAYS needs public defenders. Pay is mediocre compared to your debt obligations, but if you live modestly for a few years or of school you should be clear and then living a comfortable middle-class life.

Yeah because the only thing you can do with a law degree is start your own commercial practice.

There are tons of different fields and types of work you can do with a law degree if you properly use it as the foot in the door it is.

That being said it's a lot of work, but suits the lit lifestyle well. OP should check out some pre law school reading lists, "what to read before law school" is a good one, and there will be others pertaining to your country that will give you a better feel for the stuff you'll be learning in your courses.

I wouldn't go for it unless you're smart

why is it a bad choice

not op but id become a chattel slave in order to become a lawyer

Part of me regrets having gone, the other part is grateful.

Regret it because I spent three years of my youth in shitty shit shit Cleveland (go to school where you want to practice).

Grateful because I learned so much, felt consistently challenged and stimulated, met some of the greatest people I've ever encountered, and grew exponentially as a person. Also got lucky and got a really good job out of the deal.

Like everything in life, it's what you make of it.

Because law is an incredibly bloated industry, to the point that conspiracy theories about law schools exploiting the prestige status of the occupation to function as diploma mills have a lot of credibility.

It used to be that a law degree was good, then it was that a law degree from the top 50 was good, then the top 10. Now you need a tippy-top tier degree and great networking in order for it to be worth it in the slightest.

And law as an actual profession fucking blows for 99% of the people in it. It only prints money if you're a sociopath who wants to spend the rest of his life gaming boring-ass bureaucratic loopholes, usually to fuck people out of their money. It's not cool or interesting. It's ONLY good if all you care about is money and being a petty social climber at the country club.

It's just awful. The only way you should go to law school is if you know so much about it that you don't need to ask whether you should go to law school. Typically, by the time you know that much, you'll know that it's a shit job.

i got an absolute shit gpa my first 2 years (2.7) because i fell for stem meme and got depressed and etc etc

but im in my junior year and i got a 4.0 last semester and am going to have a 4 this semester too so if i get a solid 4 for my remaining 38 hrs of credit ill have close to a 3.5 (failed some classes so some hours dont count towards credit but count towards gpa)

if i get a 180 on the lsat can i still go to a decent school, im almost certainly going to intern for a senator at the state legislature before graduating btw if that helps