For some reason ever since I was a little boy I have wanted to be a lawyer. I never wanted to be a court room lawyer because well, I have morals. I'm going into 11th grade and I have been thinking about elder law or corporate law. But all I hear about being a lawyer is it isn't worth is to long of hours, to much money for schooling, to much job competition. Well I am an AP student and I can handle all that work. All these people saying it isn't worth it... Is it because they got screwed over from law school? Is it because they fell into the mainstream category of LACK-OF-MOTIVATION the new theme of America? I'm a runner my GPA is 99.56 call me ignorant, arrogant, anything you want, I think its worth it.
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Is it really worth being a lawyer?
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mailaccount63
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No. It's not the amount of work that is the problem - and it's not LACK OF MOTIVATION - the problem is that there are NO available jobs in this vocational field. The field is SATURATED!!!<<<< Too many applicants and not enough jobs.
Reminder: Spelling/grammar is VERY important in the field of Law.
Warning! Jobs in the field of Law are drying up FAST!! This is not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING vocational field. Many reasons. Many people today think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. We simply have WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals - we have an absolute GLUT!! ("Legal Professionals" includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc)
You will need more than morals to get you through law school - you will also need lots of money. Law school will cost you approx $150,000+.
Even IF you finish law school, you won't be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work "down" as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of THEIR bills paid <THIS would be your competition. And the competition is FIERCE!!
Now... the law schools know this, but they won't tell you the truth >that the job market/economy is SATURATED with WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will LIE to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students ANYTHING to get to the students' money. (Which is why they won't tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) AND these schools continue to recruit and churn out even MORE Legal Professionals.............
If you don't believe me, then just do a SEARCH here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law.
In the book "So You Want to be a Lawyer? by Marianne Calabrese and susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): "The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000 students graduate EACH YEAR from 200 law schools in the United States. The competition is very keen for jobs and clients."
If you want a JOB when you are done with your studies, consider and look into the field of >>HEALTHCARE! <THIS is where the jobs are! and scholarships! Apply that GPA of yours to the field of Healthcare!
Good luck.
(This was intended as personal opinion, and not intended to be used as legal advice.)
Reminder: Spelling/grammar is VERY important in the field of Law.
Warning! Jobs in the field of Law are drying up FAST!! This is not a good field to invest time and/or money into. This is a SHRINKING vocational field. Many reasons. Many people today think they can do their own legal work, thanks to the Internet. We simply have WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals - we have an absolute GLUT!! ("Legal Professionals" includes, but is not limited to: Attorneys/Lawyers, Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc)
You will need more than morals to get you through law school - you will also need lots of money. Law school will cost you approx $150,000+.
Even IF you finish law school, you won't be able to find a job when you are done. Since this vocational field is shrinking, many new attorneys/lawyers are, themselves, having to work "down" as Paralegals, Legal Assistants, Legal Secretaries, Bailiffs, Court Reporters, etc, etc, to simply try to keep some of THEIR bills paid <THIS would be your competition. And the competition is FIERCE!!
Now... the law schools know this, but they won't tell you the truth >that the job market/economy is SATURATED with WAY TOO MANY Legal Professionals. Instead the schools will feed you a fairytale and will LIE to you. The root of the problem is we have too many law schools. We are in a recession, and the schools are fighting for their own survival - they will tell students ANYTHING to get to the students' money. (Which is why they won't tell you the truth about the job market for the field of Law.) AND these schools continue to recruit and churn out even MORE Legal Professionals.............
If you don't believe me, then just do a SEARCH here on Yahoo Answers to see what other posters are saying about the current status of the field of Law.
In the book "So You Want to be a Lawyer? by Marianne Calabrese and susanne Calabrese (ISBN 0-88391-136-1): "The United States has more lawyers than any other country in the world. About 38,000 students graduate EACH YEAR from 200 law schools in the United States. The competition is very keen for jobs and clients."
If you want a JOB when you are done with your studies, consider and look into the field of >>HEALTHCARE! <THIS is where the jobs are! and scholarships! Apply that GPA of yours to the field of Healthcare!
Good luck.
(This was intended as personal opinion, and not intended to be used as legal advice.)
Baja_Sessions
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I say if you are interested and want to do it, then do it, it doesn't matter what anyone else says.