Originally posted by Publius II
[conflict]Yeah. It's not like you've been doing that for two and a half years now.[/conflict]
Nope. Been trying to tell you. The internet obviously promotes deception, but I'm an honest person. I don't have anything to lie about. Hell, I told everyone on KMC I spent 3 months in county jail. Why the hell would I lie about something as trivial as a forum?
But seriously, you're not leaning one way or another? I have a cousin in corporations law doing mergers and such who just moved to real estate. It pays well (his first job at 24 paid 140k), and it's apparently a hell of a lot less stress than, say, criminal justice (obviously).
It's not about the money for me though. Plenty of my friends are lawyers in M&A but do you HONESTLY think I can succeed in something like specific detailed paper pushing? I would fail miserably at anything resembling pushing paper, not to mention it's boring. For me, I would want to work as a prosecutor in the DA's office and maybe one day become a defense attorney. The problem is, I don't believe in 99% of the justifications defense attorneys present for their cases, so how could I expect to be a good defense attorney if I find that it's bullshit. At the same time, there is overzealous prosecuting running rampant across this country, and I was a victim to it once. However, to me the most intellectually stimulating part of law is litigation. Like I said, prosecutor is the way I'd go although the money sucks. Really, my dream is to go federal because that's where all the best action is, but they also hire the best of the best, and if you go to anything below a top tier school, top 5% or not, you won't get hired with all the competition.
You're right though, the paper pushing lawyer jobs are a lot less stressful, and a lot more boring. I'm not the accountant type, nor the detail oriented, although I would need it for litigation. I would prefer criminal justice because it demands more from me, it is ridiculously intellectually stimulating, and I think it's the best chance to reach my potential.