automirage04 t1_itz3ds6 wrote
Lawyer here.
Don't go to law school. For so, so many reasons.
Find some other way of pursuing your passion or find another passion.
donttellmymommygpa OP t1_itz3fby wrote
I am interested to hear your perspective
automirage04 t1_itz4spb wrote
I've had cancer and I still tell people that lawschool was the worst experience of my life.
Imagine all the worst aspects of high school (the cliques, the gossip, ect) combined with the worst aspects of college (mess up once on one test and your future is forever impacted) and you have the lawschool environment.
Youll pay $80k+ for that experience. At the end of it all, you'll realize they weren't even teaching you how to be a lawyer... they were teaching you to be a legal academic. You're expected to go out, find a job and have that job teach you how to be a lawyer, except no one wants to hire a lawyer with no experience.
When I was in lawschool, statistically 1 in 3 people who went into law school mentally healthy would be diagnosed with some sort of mental health disorder by the time they graduated.
Seriously, just don't go.
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