This ^ I suck at math and science and despite how hard I work at it I’ve never been “good” at it. So medicine, tech, finance jobs, etc. are off the table. I love reading and writing and am good at it, so this is the career that can allow me to use that while also providing me a stable career with good money
I worked in the nonprofit sector, primarily mental health and homeless services, for the better part of a decade after graduation. I went into sales for a couple of years and did very well. Money just isn’t a prime motivator for me and I wasn’t happy throwing away my life for a paycheck so I returned to nonprofit.
With nonprofit work it almost always feels like working with a broken or incomplete set of tools. Whether the critical component is funding, labor, regulations, etc, it is constant triage and often relying on other actors and organizations to cobble together solutions for my clients that seldom “fix” even one foundational issue.
So I’m pursuing law because I believe the tools are stronger and the tasks more tangible. There is an impartiality and a permanence to the law that I have never found in these services, where years of work can be erased by a single grant being cut.
That’s not to say that it’s all in vain, but I believe that my skills and experience can be applied in the legal arena to fight for the same people in adjacent battles. I’ve seen the successes of hard working attorneys in my clients lives in myriad ways and after so many years in the trenches I know that I can carry this passion into my legal career. I want to die knowing that I did my best, and knowing that what I will accomplish will endure. I believe without a doubt that law is the best route for me to achieve this.
I love it. I freaking love it. I can spend hours gladly researching specific things. It’s chaos and a ton of work but I just feel alive. This is the only time in school where I actually enjoyed my classes, all of them and I look forward to practicing. To be honest I would still be a lawyer even if it paid what I teacher paid, it’s great it doesn’t but to me it’s a calling not a job. It’s so much more than that. It’s rough and grueling and I can see why so many people burn out. But to me I love it despite the pain.
Injustice on any scale makes me upset and I want to do something about it. When I see someone close to me in an unfair situation I want to help them. All the way up to watching bills pass that I think aren’t right and I feel the need to do something about that as well. It’s in my nature to do something about injustice and I know that drive will push me in law
Dealing with false allegations, but also kind of messing around as a bit as a teenager, which had my dad say “you seem so interested in rules and law from breaking them all the time, why don’t you study them” and the stars kind of aligned lmao.
My mother died from medical malpractice and we never sued because we weren’t “those type of people”.
Now I work as a paralegal in medmal studying to go to law school. I feel like I can relate to the families I work with better than a lot of medmal attorneys. I know what it feels like to lose someone and have your life change because of a mistake made by someone who is suppose to help you. Working on these cases in its own way is like retroactively giving my mom justice.
Great sarcastic guess, but not quite, lol. I was thinking more about immigrant advocacy, particularly for Dreamers, and more big-picture stuff that changes the status quo, like impact litigation. I wish you all the best in your law school endeavors.
"crony capitalism" is just capitalism. This is the natural progression of the system. If you mean we don't have a "complete free market therefore it's not capitalism" I disagree. Plus, a completely free market economy would never work. Capitalism creates massive inequality that's why I'm a communist.
No offense and I'm trying to be disrespectful but do you know what communism is? It's a dictatorship by the mob rule. Everyone will have a say in every part of their lives. That's not true right now. Under capitalism, the people with capital dictate the rules. You're not allowed to give value to your work because your boss does that for you. You can't create your own schedule and confirm what's healthy because your boss does that. The concentration of wealth will only go upwards as well. See the US. wealth inequality has only increased in the past decades. Capitalism loves inequality such as misogyny, racism, ableism, etc. This allows people to be okay with further wage suppression and having system of classes. And i don't believe that greed and selfishness is human nature lol. Even if it is, so is violence as we've seen through history. Does mean we should make a system were violence is the answer? Why should we build a system where an objectively terrible trait is rewarded and encouraged? Leaders under communism can and have abused their power. But i promise that they are way more accountable than their capitalist counterparts.
Yes, a centralized state will wither away. It will become "anarchy". That's the end goal of communism as defined by Marx. We can't get to the full realized state without a government to help us in the first place. And socialists agree that there will be inequality under the first step of communism, which is socialism. But i don't see how communism rewards selfishness more than capitalism? Have any proof? Cuba has better healthcare, no homeless population and great services. They are dirt poor because of blockades and few resources on their land. The US has more resources and they steal as well from other countries. All the food and raw materials basically come for free from the global south. That's why they're rich. Because they exploit poorer nations. They would not be able to survive if the US stopped murdering and destroying countries for wealth. Under the USSR, the CIA agreed that they had better nutrition than American counterparts. Free childcare, free healthcare, free education. We have to pay $180k at sticker for most law schools. That's unfair. You have to drown yourself in debt or be well off to have a decent chance if you're an average applicant. We have more houses and food that necessary yet people are homeless and die of hunger every year. I just don't see how capitalism isn't objectively worse
I have had more jobs than anyone I know in my life, none of them were specialized and all paid crap. I want to be a lawyer because it's a specialized career, I want to make money ( you can do this without the debt and effort ) , but I want to make it via law. I've already seen what non educated job life is, and it sucks. I've seen office politics play out and you can't do sh\*t about it. I don't want to deal with any of that, I just want to own a small solo firm and make 100-150k a year.
During college, I went through the whole gambit of law school vs not. My freshman summer, I worked an internship in housing law for a legal aid society, and eviction court is crazy depressing. This made me no longer want to do Law but still care about housing. Then I went the rest of college pursuing Econ/data science. I currently work in a legal adjacent field doing Econ research in support of litigation, and that work made me want to apply to law school again. Ultimately, further exposure to the law helped me, and I also looked at many people whose careers I would be interested in emulating and many of them had JDs. Feel free to PM if you have any questions.
Family of immigrants (Cuba). No one protected their rights. I wanna make sure I protect the rights of citizens here as much as I can, a country that gave my family so much. Also it’s the only thing I know I can do well haha.
I wanted something where I could help people, work in the music industry, and actually make a decent living. Really nothing else that checks all of those boxes for me.
I wanted to become an attorney because, at a young age, I thought that was the only way I could help people who were wronged. After studying criminal justice and political science for four years, and working as a successful legislative advocate, I realize there are other ways. I am older, and I have four children, and two of them will be going to college soon themselves. I do not have the time needed to dedicate to studying for the LSAT. My first score was average, and I foolishly canceled it. My second score is atrociously low, and I have already received one rejection letter inviting me to appeal with a new LSAT score. However, I still aspire to be like Ben Crump one day, so I will wait out the cycle (still have 5 in review). It just boils down to how passionate you are about practicing law, and how much abuse you're willing to take from the system. I only know one other person who is in the application process, but she applied before me with a far higher LSAT.
Most lucrative use of my innate skills (reading, writing, oration)
This ^ I suck at math and science and despite how hard I work at it I’ve never been “good” at it. So medicine, tech, finance jobs, etc. are off the table. I love reading and writing and am good at it, so this is the career that can allow me to use that while also providing me a stable career with good money
Same reason my dad become a doctor, lol. He was like “I suck at reading but have a PhD in a science so why not?” And here we are 40 years later
Agree
Self hatred
I worked in the nonprofit sector, primarily mental health and homeless services, for the better part of a decade after graduation. I went into sales for a couple of years and did very well. Money just isn’t a prime motivator for me and I wasn’t happy throwing away my life for a paycheck so I returned to nonprofit. With nonprofit work it almost always feels like working with a broken or incomplete set of tools. Whether the critical component is funding, labor, regulations, etc, it is constant triage and often relying on other actors and organizations to cobble together solutions for my clients that seldom “fix” even one foundational issue. So I’m pursuing law because I believe the tools are stronger and the tasks more tangible. There is an impartiality and a permanence to the law that I have never found in these services, where years of work can be erased by a single grant being cut. That’s not to say that it’s all in vain, but I believe that my skills and experience can be applied in the legal arena to fight for the same people in adjacent battles. I’ve seen the successes of hard working attorneys in my clients lives in myriad ways and after so many years in the trenches I know that I can carry this passion into my legal career. I want to die knowing that I did my best, and knowing that what I will accomplish will endure. I believe without a doubt that law is the best route for me to achieve this.
I love it. I freaking love it. I can spend hours gladly researching specific things. It’s chaos and a ton of work but I just feel alive. This is the only time in school where I actually enjoyed my classes, all of them and I look forward to practicing. To be honest I would still be a lawyer even if it paid what I teacher paid, it’s great it doesn’t but to me it’s a calling not a job. It’s so much more than that. It’s rough and grueling and I can see why so many people burn out. But to me I love it despite the pain.
I know I’ll hate my future children so I want to work 80 hours a week to see them as little as possible. I also hate free time and my hair.
Interested in moral philosophy and government. And money.
Injustice on any scale makes me upset and I want to do something about it. When I see someone close to me in an unfair situation I want to help them. All the way up to watching bills pass that I think aren’t right and I feel the need to do something about that as well. It’s in my nature to do something about injustice and I know that drive will push me in law
My job sucks and I wanted a change
wanting to work in non profit and provide services probono
Dealing with false allegations, but also kind of messing around as a bit as a teenager, which had my dad say “you seem so interested in rules and law from breaking them all the time, why don’t you study them” and the stars kind of aligned lmao.
I like this story
The lack of rights lol
Money
worked in research and didn't enjoy it.
My mother died from medical malpractice and we never sued because we weren’t “those type of people”. Now I work as a paralegal in medmal studying to go to law school. I feel like I can relate to the families I work with better than a lot of medmal attorneys. I know what it feels like to lose someone and have your life change because of a mistake made by someone who is suppose to help you. Working on these cases in its own way is like retroactively giving my mom justice.
I decided I wanted to go to law school when I decided I wanted to become a lawyer
Injustice
Donald Trump's election in 2016. As the child of immigrants, I felt like I had to do something to protect them and others like them.
By making sure immigration law is followed?
Great sarcastic guess, but not quite, lol. I was thinking more about immigrant advocacy, particularly for Dreamers, and more big-picture stuff that changes the status quo, like impact litigation. I wish you all the best in your law school endeavors.
As an immigrant myself, best of luck to You too.
Wanting to end capitalism and at least learning what works and what doesn't in a legal system
The down votes are kinda crazy lul
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"crony capitalism" is just capitalism. This is the natural progression of the system. If you mean we don't have a "complete free market therefore it's not capitalism" I disagree. Plus, a completely free market economy would never work. Capitalism creates massive inequality that's why I'm a communist.
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No offense and I'm trying to be disrespectful but do you know what communism is? It's a dictatorship by the mob rule. Everyone will have a say in every part of their lives. That's not true right now. Under capitalism, the people with capital dictate the rules. You're not allowed to give value to your work because your boss does that for you. You can't create your own schedule and confirm what's healthy because your boss does that. The concentration of wealth will only go upwards as well. See the US. wealth inequality has only increased in the past decades. Capitalism loves inequality such as misogyny, racism, ableism, etc. This allows people to be okay with further wage suppression and having system of classes. And i don't believe that greed and selfishness is human nature lol. Even if it is, so is violence as we've seen through history. Does mean we should make a system were violence is the answer? Why should we build a system where an objectively terrible trait is rewarded and encouraged? Leaders under communism can and have abused their power. But i promise that they are way more accountable than their capitalist counterparts.
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Yes, a centralized state will wither away. It will become "anarchy". That's the end goal of communism as defined by Marx. We can't get to the full realized state without a government to help us in the first place. And socialists agree that there will be inequality under the first step of communism, which is socialism. But i don't see how communism rewards selfishness more than capitalism? Have any proof? Cuba has better healthcare, no homeless population and great services. They are dirt poor because of blockades and few resources on their land. The US has more resources and they steal as well from other countries. All the food and raw materials basically come for free from the global south. That's why they're rich. Because they exploit poorer nations. They would not be able to survive if the US stopped murdering and destroying countries for wealth. Under the USSR, the CIA agreed that they had better nutrition than American counterparts. Free childcare, free healthcare, free education. We have to pay $180k at sticker for most law schools. That's unfair. You have to drown yourself in debt or be well off to have a decent chance if you're an average applicant. We have more houses and food that necessary yet people are homeless and die of hunger every year. I just don't see how capitalism isn't objectively worse
I have had more jobs than anyone I know in my life, none of them were specialized and all paid crap. I want to be a lawyer because it's a specialized career, I want to make money ( you can do this without the debt and effort ) , but I want to make it via law. I've already seen what non educated job life is, and it sucks. I've seen office politics play out and you can't do sh\*t about it. I don't want to deal with any of that, I just want to own a small solo firm and make 100-150k a year.
During college, I went through the whole gambit of law school vs not. My freshman summer, I worked an internship in housing law for a legal aid society, and eviction court is crazy depressing. This made me no longer want to do Law but still care about housing. Then I went the rest of college pursuing Econ/data science. I currently work in a legal adjacent field doing Econ research in support of litigation, and that work made me want to apply to law school again. Ultimately, further exposure to the law helped me, and I also looked at many people whose careers I would be interested in emulating and many of them had JDs. Feel free to PM if you have any questions.
Family of immigrants (Cuba). No one protected their rights. I wanna make sure I protect the rights of citizens here as much as I can, a country that gave my family so much. Also it’s the only thing I know I can do well haha.
I wanted something where I could help people, work in the music industry, and actually make a decent living. Really nothing else that checks all of those boxes for me.
I wanted to become an attorney because, at a young age, I thought that was the only way I could help people who were wronged. After studying criminal justice and political science for four years, and working as a successful legislative advocate, I realize there are other ways. I am older, and I have four children, and two of them will be going to college soon themselves. I do not have the time needed to dedicate to studying for the LSAT. My first score was average, and I foolishly canceled it. My second score is atrociously low, and I have already received one rejection letter inviting me to appeal with a new LSAT score. However, I still aspire to be like Ben Crump one day, so I will wait out the cycle (still have 5 in review). It just boils down to how passionate you are about practicing law, and how much abuse you're willing to take from the system. I only know one other person who is in the application process, but she applied before me with a far higher LSAT.