Why did I go to law school?

[McPainsBrain]

That sure was stupid.

It's depressing, and I have no interest in doing any of it, and now I'm halfway into fall semester of second year.

<----------- Stupid

[MrScorpio]

1. Once you'll pass the bar you'll see that it was all worth

Stay with it

[Dangerously Amused]

2. Everybody feels that way after 1L.

Wait until after 2L, when you get to start taking the cool classes and clinics and internships. Then it will make sense again.

[Misskittycat]

4. Respectfully disagree. Either you love it from the beginning or

it will continue to be a boring misery to you throughout your career. Cut your losses and get out now.

[Bake]

9. Ummm ... I didn't feel like that after 1L.

But then, I knew why I was there, and I WANTED to be there. A lot of law students do it just because there's nothing else to do. And that's why there are too many lawyers. I'm not saying anything specifically about OP, but just in general.

Bake

[Eurobabe]

3. Because you wanted to come out with 100K debt?

Join the club. My youngest just got a master's and came out with 75K.

[Droopy]

5. That's a shame.

A college education shouldn't cost that much, even at the "good" schools. Your kid and the OP will probably be paying on that until they retire. What a burdon.

[Eurobabe]

8. Yep

My daughter just worked out her payment plan, and she will be paying for something like 30 years? $450/mo.

This madness has to stop.

[panhead1961]

6. Teachers and the classes may suck at this point

If you have a passion for it stay with it. Even the coolest jobs suck at times. School is way harder than a lot of people realize. God luck

[Sanity Claws]

7. Because you bought into the prevailing paradigm

If you were like me, you did well in school and many people pushed you into law or medical school. They certainly had the best in mind for you, you respected them, and you took their advice.
A legal career sucks. Feel free to PM me if you want particulars.

[Orsino]

10. I don't know. Why did you?

Something must have fired you up about the law in the last couple of years. Do you remember what it was? Do you think your course work will eventually get you there?

[philosophie_en_rose]

11. I still ask myself that.

:(

[Pierre.Suave]

12. You went to law school?

Seriously?

Where?

[KitchenWitch]

13. Totino's Law School

:hide:

[Pierre.Suave]

14. Thats what I am thinking

too.

[DS1]

16. Whatever, Dr. Nick

:eyes:

[Pierre.Suave]

17. Say what now?

[undeterred]

21. I went to DiGiorno's Law School.

[DS1]

15. Eh. Despite me sleeping through most of it, my high school law class

was pretty interesting during the awake parts.

I blame the cheesesteak lunches immediately prior. Nobody can eat a cheesesteak and THEN go through law class.

Not me, anyway.

[JVS]

18. To kill kill kill with cold blue steel!

[old mark]

19. This will cheer you up:

Q: What do you call 200 lawyers in chains under the ocean?

A: A good start.

See?
Better already.

mark

[undeterred]

20. Well, not so you could run for political office.

No one who knows anything about the law is allowed to run for office. Ever.

[Flaxbee]

22. I ask myself that, too...

I did not enjoy the practice of law; I should have quit while I was ahead. I will say that the degree has been a door-opener in some instances.

Think hard about what you'd like to do. If the degree will serve you well if you want to be a lobbyist, or work in government, then stay with it.

I went to law school b/c I was sort of lost - didn't know what else to do. I had no one to really help me figure out what to do with my life, so I just applied to law school and got accepted to a school I liked, so I went.

DO NOT get sucked in to law firm practice if you don't want to. Be very careful with your career choices; I wasn't, and quit law after 6 years.

[rug]

23. I went after my fifth arrest because I thought it would be cheaper.

[Pierre.Suave]

24. HAHA

:rofl:

[PfcHammer]

28. dude now go to police academy and you'll be set.

confused but set.

[Taverner]

25. You don't have to practice law

Hell, you could be a legal expert for an alternative energy company

[4 t 4]

27. I have always thought every family needs

a good lawyer on their side. It's too bad you can't make enough money defending all the wrongs in the world against all your family and friends. But I know that is not how it is.

[tigereye]

26. everyone feels like that in grad school at some point...

a good friend of mine got his PHD in Microbiology and THEN went to law school. At the time, I thought he was insane.

He now has the kind of job that really intrigues him.