We at OTLSS wish you the best for the holidays and the coming year. If you are unemployed on account of the law-school scam, remember that Santa Claus shares your plight:
The law-school scam has gained its second wind, with high levels of applications after a long period of decline. Law school remains a bad choice for almost everyone, whatever the fawning media may say. Stay away from law school if you don't want to get a lump of coal in your stocking for the rest of your life.
My own tale should be cautionary. I quit being an engineer in 2006 to go to a TTT. Graduated in the middle of the Great Recession and never found a job as a lawyer. Lost $300,000+ in engineer earnings and paid $100,000 for law school.
ReplyDeleteNow I'm desperately trying to hang on to my JD Advantage job, knowing that I will have difficulty finding any job at my age. Maybe if I get let go I can go back to what I did after graduating law school without a job: Home Depot.
Yes, your tale is a good warning to others. "JD-advantage" is Itself ridiculous: which other field of study upholds the benefits of working outside the field? But it seems that you could not find better work after a loss of $400k or more. That's a very steep price to pay for the alleged advantages of a JD.
DeleteOld Guy did eventually succeed—after a fashion—as a lawyer, but not without a great deal of trouble, and he is far from happy with his decision to go into law.