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Co-signed 100%. At this point, law is only worth going into if someone else is paying for it and the person has worked in some kind of law office and finds they enjoy the work.
I had a young guy in my office last month, with his dad (the client), who was apparently been accepted to Georgetown Law and was pretty hyped to be going.
I couldn't bring myself to tell him how badly I expected that to turn out for him in the end.
Important detail: he's black, so my guess is that he's getting some financial support.
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It's funny. I love the idea of law. I briefly worked in the mail room of a law firm and even enjoyed that.
I took the LSAT and got a 178.
Then 2008 happened and every single liberal arts student in the country stampeded into law. I guess it wasn't meant to be.
Maybe I'll sit for the patent agent test one day.
I hit the job market in early 2008. Consider yourself beyond fortunate at the bullet you dodged.
I imagine you would pass (the low pass rate comes from engineers with no legal training taking it, not lots of lawyers with 178 LSATs taking it; I studied seriously for it like it was a true bar exam and was way overprepared), but unless it would increase your income in some way, it's probably not worth the time and effort.
Oh I'm not a lawyer. I bailed and stayed in software before I racked up a shitload of debt.
I'm one of those engineers.
Yes, I should've said "not lots of [actual or potential] lawyers with 178 LSATs" or something like that.
No, you're an engineer who took the LSAT and did very well. Again, not the kind of engineer dragging down the pass rate.
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