I spent the second year of my social work internship working at a community center, which offered one of the top smoking cessation programs in the country.
One fine spring day I was sprawled, sunning myself, on a bench in the courtyard of the center when a fellow intern lit up a cigarette. I proposed she give the cessation program a try.
“No one likes a quitter,” she quipped, exhaling a cloud of toxins.
Uh…huh. Except there’s a proviso in that statement – a “carve-out” in the contract language – covering the quitting of something self-destructive. Like smoking.
Or a pointless march through law school.
I’d like to speak in defense of quitting, and quitters.
Quitting can be about more than stopping whatever you’re doing. It can be about waking up and asking yourself if what you’re doing makes sense and is worth continuing.
If you’re plugging away dutifully through the legal education process with no real idea why – it might be time to quit.
Does this mean I’m seriously advising young law students all over the country to give up and drop out – simply abandon their legal education mid-way through?
Yes.
I am prescribing a mass exodus from law schools. A semi-mass exodus might do the trick.
Tune in. Turn on. Drop out.
If you don’t know why you’re there – and you’re not sure what you’re getting yourself into – if you’re not at a top school, or even if you are, and your grades are a little iffy, and likely to stay that way – then please, get out. Today. Before you spend another cent.
The legal education scam works because it follows two key rules of all successful Ponzi schemes:
First, it plays to your greed. You dig your own hole because you’re in it for the money.
Second, it keeps you distracted. You never realize you’re getting fleeced.
The process is like a cattle chute. From the LSAT to the bar exam, you never look up because you’re moving too fast, racing to compete against the others…right up to the bolt gun in the forehead. Even if you awakened midway and realized you weren’t having fun and wanted to flee, there’s no obvious route of escape. That’s how it’s designed.
Along the way, you sign documents to borrow the purchase price of a Rolls Royce Corniche with nothing to show for it but a piece of paper saying you’re theoretically prepared for a job you know nothing about.
You end up $200k in debt and either stuck in a field you never understood and don’t like – or unemployed (the unemployed part isn’t the problem since it turns out you really want to be a jazz drummer anyway, not a lawyer.)
But that $200k in debt is there to say – sorry, you work for us now. In fact, we own you – own your future. Just like that cow on the feedlot.
You don’t have to go out like that.
Last year a sweet little 24-year-old Jewish 2L from one of the dozen or so legal factories of learning in the New York metropolitan area arrived at my office with the news she was quitting school. She wanted to talk to me first. She said she felt guilty.
I’m Jewish too. I know from guilt. It’s a sacred gift of our cultural heritage – but it’s no reason not to quit law school.
She told me she didn’t see the point of sticking around. She didn’t enjoy law, her grades were so-so, and her friends who recently graduated were dealing with terrible workplace conditions and/or unemployment. She’s already $50k in debt – and to her credit, at the age of 24, she seemed to have an inkling of the years it will take to pay back that relatively minor insult to her finances.
Her parents support her decision. Her mother is an accountant, so she sees the importance of avoiding debt. She also seems to realize there are plenty of other, better choices for a bright, eager 24-year-old.
When I asked the 2L what she actually wanted to do when she grew up, she told me she loved clothes, and dreamed of working at her favorite chain, where she could happily wear almost anything, right off the rack. She’d have to start at the bottom, at a store, and work her way up, but she had some fight in her, and a little imagination. She was ready.
Her mother liked the idea. Lo and behold: a cool mom.
The 2L’s plan was to quit school right away, but she wanted to see me first, and make sure she wasn’t missing something.
She wasn’t.
There was no point in waiting until the end of the semester. A month in law school costs something like three or four thousand dollars. That’s a lot of new clothes.
She quit last week. With my blessing.
Madness? Think again.
This 2L is cutting her losses – saving the next $150k in loans, not to mention another two years of her life that could be spent acquiring priceless real world experience in fashion retail.
She’s no longer living a fantasy of graduating, jumping into a big law firm and making $160k per year. She’s abandoned that pipe dream.
The new plan is to start at the bottom (where, with all due respect, 24-year-olds belong), and earn an honest wage in a business she enjoys. If she’s as good as she thinks, she could work her way up to management in a few years’ time. But she’s smart enough to know you don’t pick up the important stuff in a classroom. Eventually, the money she saved on legal tuition could come in handy if she decides to go back to school for an MBA or a fashion merchandising degree, but that’s a ways down the road. In the meantime, she’s looking forward to the challenge of proving herself.
This 2L was different. She got it. I don’t know why, but she did. Maybe she’s a harbinger of good things to come. I hope so.
If reading this column makes you stop and think about staying in law school, I’ve done my job.
If it triggers a mass exodus of 2L’s waking up and realizing they’re losing that hankering for the bolt gun in the forehead, it might be the start of a movement.
No one likes a quitter?
This isn’t about quitting anything – at least anything that matters.
It’s about getting started leading your own life.
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Beyond the money scam, the real problem with law school /law students is that you have far too many people studying for a “profession” they know nothing about. Unless you come from a family of lawyers, a prospective law student really has little clue as to what lawyers do day in and day out…even interning as a “runner” at a law firm gives you very little exposure to what type of work lawyers do; what the profession demands; and whether it is something you want to do, and what it will do to you and your soul.
Too many students, myself included, went to law school because they were poly/sci/philosophy students that loved studying “the law”….which, to paragraphase Adam Schiff, has as little to do with the actual practice of law as a canine lying in sun the has to do with a hot dog. The legal profession is no place for intellectuals. Many others go into law because they do not know what else to do with their lives. Still others think an additional 3 years of schooling is the most efficient way to make big dollars. It is only during the first year of actual practice that reality sets in and people realize what they have gotten themselves in for. I think a lot of the misery would go away if law would return to a skills based apprenticship program; where you shadow a real lawyer; learn lawyering skills, and pick up “the law” along the way.
This article makes a great distinction between “quitting”– i.e. giving up because you don’t want to put in the effort to suceed– and making a conscious choice as to whether the effort is worth the result. Too many people are “scared” into staying in law school. While I think Will may be a little flippant here with his invitiation to students to quit en masse, the ultimate premise–doing something you enjoy and facing the fear of the unknown is better than following the herd in fear–is sound.
Agree. 110%. Also, I actually think there are people out there who have never considered law but would love it. They haven’t considered it because they think it means being Perry Mason and they can’t imagine ranting and raving in the middle of a courtroom. Surprise! The only lawyers who do that are really bad ones. There is a bad mismatch between what lawyers do and what the world thinks we do. I was a bit clueless myself but it turns out I do like this stuff anyway. But that was really just a fluke.
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Despite what you say about the 2L’s Jewish legacy guilt, I think there might be more to it. And, it relates to the strength it takes to quit.
The story I project on her is: In quitting, she feels guilty about disappointing someone…maybe even herself. If she has signed on for Finish What You Start somewhere in her past, it’s hard to walk away.
Sometimes saying “no more” to self-destructive behavior includes putting down what I tell myself about me and the story I make up about what others might judge about me.
Anyway, great post. Thanks!
Sara Palin quit, now she’s rich.
I’m so happy for her! Terribly jealous of her 24-ness and the relatively blank slate she has in front of her. I wish I’d been that brave and self-aware when I was 24. I didn’t go to law school until I was 25 so I could have in theory saved myself….sigh. As an aside, I don’t think this is a negative subject at all. It’s great to see a story about a young’un with creativity and dreams for a change. After all, the “children” are our future…
It’s a systemic problem. We need to attack the debt origination structures.
Namely the SLABS…the securitized student loan debt vehicles.
That and make it easy to default on student loan debt.
It’s a debt problem more than anything else at the moment.
http://thirdtierreality.blogspot.com/
Potential law students need to check this site out…stat.
I wish I’d had the guts to do that. I very nearly quit law school the first month of my 2L year. I was talked out of it by my boyfriend and best friend, also both law students. Several years later, the best friend and I no longer practice, and still feel tied down to corporate jobs because of those loans. The now ex-boyfriend doubled down and got his LLM in tax, and now desperately trying to find an in-house job in the hopes that it will save him from a daily grind that he feels is slowly killing him.
I wish we’d all listened to my gut.
Plus, if you quit, you have acknowledged thay you are a Total Failure (TM).
Which means that Life Is Now Over.
My Life Ended back in the mid-1990s, during college.
I solved the Problem by Going to Law School. To achive Transcendent Success.
From Psychology Today:
“At the heart of fear of failure is the belief held by children that if they fail, in school, sports, the performing arts, or socially, then bad things will happen, for example, they will disappoint their parents, be ostracized by their peer group, experience embarrassment or shame, or feel worthless. Fear of failure typically emerges from messages that children’s parents convey that being loved depends on their being successful or that their parents’ love will be withdrawn if they fail (this is rarely the message that parents send, but it is the one that children frequently receive). Children with Fear of failure perceive failure to be a ravenous beast that pursues them relentlessly and they only experience a small amount of relief when they succeed (and that feeling doesn’t last long). As a result, avoiding failure becomes their singular motivation and goal in life.”
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-power-prime/201010/parenting-fear-failure-revisited
“Children with Fear of failure perceive failure to be a ravenous beast that pursues them relentlessly and they only experience a small amount of relief when they succeed (and that feeling doesn’t last long). As a result, avoiding failure becomes their singular motivation and goal in life.”
You just described life in a law firm.
“Fear of failure typically emerges from messages that children’s parents convey that being loved depends on their being successful or that their parents’ love will be withdrawn if they fail (this is rarely the message that parents send, but it is the one that children frequently receive).”
NB, some do actually send this message.
In any case, parents, partners, they’re all fungible, and until one gets over This Fear it’s pretty powerful stuff in a law firm setting.
The only successful people at my BigLaw firm were these people. I actually had a partner tell me “I like it when my associates sweat. I want them lying awake at night, terrified they missed something. That’s the only way I feel safe, and not really even then.”
If doctors fail, people die. If soldiers or Marines fail, people die (granted success can mean death, too). Dropping out of law school is not failure. It’s more doing what others don’t: acknowledging something isn’t right for you and taking the steps necessary to do what is right for you.
And let’s not forget there’s been a recession. Going to law school/business school/grad school remains the perceived way to “ride it out.” This country still puts a premium on education, and a popular theory has become that a BA is the minimum, like a high school diploma or GED used to be. You could get a decent job. Get a BA, get a better job. Now, get a BA, get a decent job. To get a better job, you need an advanced degree.
Like every successful rock band, start up or Walmart, there are thousands who remain unknown. Law school is quite similar. In the end, life is what you make it, which is partly based on how you perceive it.
Great Article. There are days in my daily work as an attorney that I wish I’d done the same. 9 years out and still battling the stupid debt. Only go to law school if you really want to be a lawyer AND can pay for it with cash!
I honestly think this is the worst advice I have ever heard, and certainly is the worst advice I have ever read on this normally thoughtful blog.
I completely agree that people go to law school for the wrong reason (often top among the wrong reasons is going for no reason at all). Furthermore, I am a huge believer in throwing caution to the wind and doing what you like. I think doing that leads to a happier, more fulfilled life, and in many cases that leads to more compensation in the long run.
So, why do I condemn this post by the normally-thoughtful, Members-Only-jacket-wearing People’s Therapist? I have two reasons. First, retail is a brutal racket and is no longer a place to make a long-term career. My experience in retail is that the conditions are rough, the pay is awful, and there is no upward mobility past the store (maybe I should coin the phrase “all malls have ceilings”? I’ll work on that.) Of course, if retail is how you want to spend your life, then do it – but I would not advise someone to quit law school until she knew for sure just how bad retail is.
Second, quitting school has long-term consequences, and quitting mid-semester is an awful idea. A close friend of mine dropped out twice, one time getting Fs or Ws because she jumped mid-semester. Later, when she finally found her true calling, she couldn’t get into any programs because her poor stick-to-it-tiveness was an issue.
Thus, if I was a therapist to the people (even some of the people), I would encourage people to follow their dreams and put their lives on track to go where they want to go. But, I would not encourage people to act rashly when the path isn’t clear and the long-term consequences can be staggering.
I agree that there are currently far too many law shcools and far too many people going to law school. Too many people jump into law school not even thinking about the decision. A mass exodus would ease the grim situation in the legal job market.
I tell anyone thinking about law school that they should contemplate two very important questions: (1) are you willng to sacrifice two precious resources – time and money; and (2) are you interested in studying the law (not watching The Good Wife, but actually reading cases).
If the answer to either question is no, then you should not be going to law school, or you should leave if you are already in law shcool.
All that being said, this post is overly harsh. This post makes it seem like no one should be going to law school unless they are rich and accepted in a top law school.
I graduated from a not-so-top law school one year ago, and I am glad that I decided to go. At no point did I want to leave. I was willing to make the sacrifice of time and money, and I enjoyed studying law (and now I enjoy practicing law). I realize that I may be the exception, but I just want to emphasize that law school is a good decision for some people.
ummmm i wouldn’t be pointing her in the direction of an MBA either. not more education…..less education. we all grew up hearing……go to school….go to school…..the fact of the matter is, the more schooling we got, the more worthless our education actually became. learn something worth learning. something you can can a job with, just by knowing it. business school, law school all bs.
I’m pretty skeptical about MBAs. I’m sure that ones from the very best schools, with great grades, open doors – but evening, internet-based, lower-ranked schools…not so much. Possibly even less useful than a JD from a low ranked school, because you can’t really hang a shingle as a “licensed” general marketing or finance “manager.”
100 percent correct
EM , the author is painfully correct. You shouldn’t go to law school unless it’s paid for, or you’re in a top school. Period. It’s not harsh to make such a statement. Its pure, unadulterated truth.
I was gonna be a therapist, but dropped out to go to law school.
Wow this guy still has a lot of negative emotion about his law school experience and a very poor understanding of economics. Once you’ve gotten halfway through, the actually marginal cost of actually being a lawyer is only half as much.and it is in most people’s best interest to finish/
Except for the fact that you can’t actually replace those 18 months of your life.
Economics is only one factor that goes into the law school equation.
huh? Go bone up on the concept of “sunk costs” and then re-think your post.
Chick needs to cut her losses.
huh? was directed at RJ not JP
Your identification of the law school experience is right on. People’s greed definitely motivates them – and the false image that most law schools are selling that just about all students will make $160K when they get out. Also, even for those schools that share some data, student arrogance takes over. They think that even though only 5% of people will get a high paying job, they will certainly be among the 5% because everybody has always told them how *special* they are. Then there is the embarrassment of realizing that you don’t really like law and aren’t cut out for it – after bragging about going to law school so much and having your relatives being so happy/envious.
I’m not sure that I would necessarily recommend retail as a long-term career aspiration, but so what? The girl can get a little taste of the real world in retail without becoming trapped by debt. Then she can maybe find something that shw likes better.
I agree with you completely that about half the current law students would be so much better off if they would just get off the “train to nowhere – or debt hell as the case may be” and leave law school ASAP.
Well, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton went to law school, and they seem to have turned out pretty well. As have Nelson Mandela, Shirin Ebadi, Albie Sachs, Elyn Saks, and other interesting activists/lawyers/judges/politicians around the world. Ditto for quite a few writers: Kafka, Carlos Fuentes, Harper Lee, David Orr, John Mortimer, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Michael Connelly (of The Lincoln Lawyer fame), to name a few.
Of course, there was no BigLaw and standard-issue 200K debt in Lincoln’s day. Personally, I think law can be a horrible profession, and I agree that it’s a Ponzi scheme in some respects (shame on the law schools, especially). But not everyone who decides to study law automatically becomes a cog in a BigLaw 24/7 assembly line. There are good people out there who went to law school, learned from the experience, and went on to do good work in law and other fields. My advice? “To thine own self be true.”
Law school is a pyramid scheme. Because the number of newly minted lawyers is about twice as much as is needed to actually fully lawify the economy to maximum capacity.
Once you get way beyond appropriate capacity, you get into an overlawyered world. In addition, you lard up students with massive unpayable debt. Although you get some happy law professors.
And,
Greenfrog says:
“Well, Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Michelle Obama and Hillary Clinton went to law school, and they seem to have turned out pretty well. As have Nelson Mandela, Shirin Ebadi, Albie Sachs, Elyn Saks, and other interesting activists/lawyers/judges/politicians around the world. Ditto for quite a few writers: Kafka, Carlos Fuentes, Harper Lee, David Orr, John Mortimer, John Grisham, Scott Turow, Michael Connelly (of The Lincoln Lawyer fame), to name a few.”
This would be the law school (and/or Ivy League) as ticket to Transcendent Success model.
Here’s Gary North’s take on the higher education system in general. Even if you don’t like Gary North, this is pretty funny:
“In the best universities, we find mega-classes of 500 to 1,000 students. Lower division students sit in huge lecture halls and listen to a professor give a lecture that could just as well be in a digital format on a server. If an Ivy League school charges $35,000 a year for tuition, that is $1,166 per semester credit. So, a college generates well over $10,000 per student per one-year mega-course. The student is taught by a $20,000 per year graduate assistant, who runs discussion sessions. Put 1,000 students in a lecture hall for a year, and the school earns gross revenues of $10 million.
Is this worth the money? Parents think so. Donors think so. Students think so. Why? Because of the perceived prestige of the diploma. Also, the parent thinks the student will make personal contacts with high-earners.
Is this strategy working? No. Has it ever worked for most students? No. But the myth goes on. It has gone on for centuries.
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This is no bubble. This has been going on since 1636 in Harvard’s case. Parents want to get their children certified as the best. They will pay the price. Is this foolish? I think so. But let’s not call it a bubble. A pricing structure that works for almost 400 years is not a bubble. It has worked in Europe for 900 years.
Parents are buying a consumer good. “My child just got into [Prestige U].” The parent gets bragging rights. He does not perceive this as a neon sign over his mortgaged front door that says, “Sucker!””
http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north975.html
Abraham Lincoln might have been a lawyer, but like many (most?) at the time, he did not go to law school. It probably says something that I would not personally put the other three in your list – who did indeed go to law school – in the same category as Lincoln.
I agree that Lincoln towers over the others, at least based on the evidence thus far. And law was different in those days. When Lincoln was out riding circuit, he would spend his evenings trying to educate himself – I mean really educate himself (by trying to learn geometry or reading Shakespeare, for example), as opposed to doing all-night doc review, monitoring his blackberry, and checking out YouTube videos and facebook posts out of boredom.
I spend my free time trying to learn international geopolitics, mass psychology, general psychology, theology, and finance these days.
If I had more free time, I could learn more about those things.
I’m not sure that counts as a education, though.
I think it’s a hypocritical for Dr. Meyerhofer to criticize legal education while prominently showcasing his own hyper-education on his website (and J.D., PhD, MA, DVD, and so much more!). I’m getting a little sick of lawyers who tell everyone else not to go to law school, whine about the “soul sucking,” legal profession and then happily take home big fat paychecks. Whether education has intrinsic value or not, putting an advanced degree on your resume will help you get a job.
I think hyper-education is used as a proxy for intelligence these days.
You do realize the cost of education is rising much faster than wages, right?
And you do see where that is going to end up, right? Especially now that larding students up with debt is being used as an economic driver of consumption.
It’s pretty straightforward math more than anything else.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
Once you have the soul-sucking degree you might as well make a living until other plans are finalized.
I was too stubborn to drop out of law school, even though my gut was telling me I didn’t belong there. I remember attending those wine-and-dine get togethers at NYU hosted by numerous BigLaw firms, and literally feeling sick to my stomach. It wasn’t for me. Six years after graduating, I finally had the courage (and most of my debt paid off) and quit my law firm job. It was the most freeing thing I ever did. I would have saved six years of my life if I had taken this advice back in 2001. Great article.
So, did you lose six years of your life or nine years, six working, plus law school?
Will, I love your column, and it’s actually one of the things I look forward to to help me get through the week. That said, I think your advice here may have been a little flawed.
The girl is 24 years old.
She’s got to make her own decisions. Obviously, she was leaning towards a course of action. Assumedly, she talked it over with her mom, and her mom was supportive.
Why does she need you to tell her it’s ok?
If it were me, I would have told her, “Look. You obviously already know how I feel about Big Law. I’m happy to answer any specific questions you may have about my experience. But you’re 24 years old, it’s your life, and it’s a decision you’ve got to make based on your goals and not on what anyone else tells you is or isn’t ok.”
This girl could end up 40 years old and working in the mall. Maybe she’ll be happier. Maybe she’ll regret it. And I wouldn’t want that responsibility.
What a terrible post–it lacks nuance and irresponsibly suggests that people should consider quitting without considering all the relevant factors.
You can make a decent point, I think–that quitting might sometimes be the best option for everyone, but it seems ridiculous to paint the profession (and the fate of law students) with such a broad brush.
Ever hear of a self-fulfilling prophesy? Or of projection? Just because you quit the law doesn’t mean that you should so irresponsibly suggest that everyone consider following in your footsteps.
If Will is wrong and law firm life is so nirvana-esque, waht to make about consistent posts like these (this one on Above the Law about recent transactions at Kaye Scholer):
“Terrible things have happened here in the last few years. The word needs to get out: STAY AWAY. Rampant stealth layoffs, associates fired based on fictional reviews (by partners they never worked for or for work they never did), partners calling other firms to sabotage associate job prospects after the associates were fired, women fired for getting pregnant, cutting first year salaries by $100k without notice, shifting minimum billable hours requirement to 2200 without notice, mandatory salary hold-backs based on shifting hours standards.”
Oh, and in support of Radyn’s note, here’s an article from the Economist:
Biggest concern isn’t profits. It’s survival.
“TWO years ago Howrey was one of the world’s 100 biggest law firms by revenue, with nearly 700 lawyers in eight countries. Profits exceeded $1m per partner. The American firm, which specialised in intellectual-property suits, had had several spectacular years in a row. But in 2009 profits were much less than expected and angry partners began to leave. Defections continued during the recession. After failed merger talks, Howrey shut its doors this March.
Though Howrey was the only big firm to collapse, the forces that destroyed it hit the whole profession hard. Work on mergers and acquisitions (M&A) dried up and nothing similarly profitable took its place (bankruptcy, securities litigation and regulation were rare bright spots). Clients became keener to query their bills—and to demand alternatives to the convention of charging by the hour, such as flat, capped or contingent fees. Small and innovative firms began obliging them, and big firms increasingly felt forced to follow suit.
All this took a toll on the labour market. After a dozen years of growth, employment in America’s law industry, the world’s biggest, has declined for the past three years (see chart 1). The 250 biggest firms, according to an annual survey by the National Law Journal, shed more than 9,500 lawyers in 2009 and 2010, nearly 8% of the total. Many also deferred hiring, leaving new graduates in a glutted market. Legal-process outsourcing firms, which do not advise clients but do routine work such as reviewing documents, put further downward pressure on the demand for their talents. The pain was felt in Britain, easily the biggest legal market after America, and other countries too.”
http://www.economist.com/node/18651114
I suppose it depends on what you desire from the process. Every prospective law student should realize that the $150,000 starting salaries are few and far between and unless you’re a top 10% at a top 10 school you are probably not in that league.
However, that’s not the end of the matter. I graduated from a state school with a good regional reputation but no national reputation at all. I worked my a** off to graduate with high honors and $60,000 in debt. I didn’t get a BigLaw job, didn’t even come close, couldn’t even get an interview. And I’m very thankful. I didn’t go to law school expecting that and wasn’t overly disappointed when I didn’t get it. I worked as an associate and then advanced to partner in a good firm in a small city, doing good and interesting work for “real people.” 15 years later I have my own practice, doing what I really like doing. I certainly don’t make anywhere near what BigLaw partners make but I have a great quality of life in a small city I love.
Law School and the practice of law isn’t for everyone and I agree that too many people head in that direction without a clear idea of exactly what they want. However, it is not a complete waste of time and money either. I’m happy with my choice. It worked for me and it works for countless others who go into the process realistically.
You can rationalize completing or not completing law school, sitting for the Board or not, finding a job or not, liking a job or not, or moving to an alternative career path.
It is a credential that differeniates you from others, it might get you past some filters in life, but it is also an education that can never be taken away from you.
It is not free, nor is an MBA or other masters program. There are few entitlements in life, air being the most common.
If you are in it for the money, you should of started a business and not worked for others. That is where the money is as only a few make it in the larger organizations. Not saying you can not make a good living, but that is not accumlating wealth.
Is life tough, yea it really is, taking a line from a movie where an young person asks an older if it gets easier, the answer is NO.
So stop whinning and get on with your life what ever it might be, but realize it is seldom to see the same opportunity twice in ones life. Every decision has consequences and you are the one making the call. Just to maker harder, no one knows the future. You will only know how valueable your law degree was at the end of your life.
To counter that reality, remember perception is reality, and every day is a new opportunity, the future begins today, and there is no guarantee that you will be alive in the next minute.
Welcome to life.
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