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1. sheckmess

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   Do you want to be a 36-37 year old lawyer? If the answer is undoubtedly yes, get cracking on all the financial/logistical stuff. It depends also what kind of lawyer.

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2. lazyygothh

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   Im 34 trying to go to law school, and there are many students older than me.

   That said, do your research and make sure it’s something you really want to do. Some aspects of the job are not great, and lawyers don’t always make good money.

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3. FindMeLikeAegis

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   I think it is critically important to pursue your professional interests and passions while also rigorously assessing economic and market realities of your chosen field.

   To that end, if you can, I would speak with recent law graduates about their employment prospects in the face of AI being used for “low level” work that recent graduates used to perform. I would also speak to people in your desired area of practice to discuss what a competitive applicant may look like in 3-5 years.

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4. electricgrapes

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   if you just need a JD, not that crazy. if you haven’t done a bachelor’s yet, yes this is crazy.

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5. gottaeatnow

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   Lawyer here. If you really want to be a lawyer then go for it. But it’s important to realistic about the debt and median salary for lawyers in the area where you want to practice.

   There are days that it’s a great job and others where all you do is listen to people complain and tell them that you can’t help them.

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6. AuneJasten

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   It’s not crazy. I am a lawyer. I worked as a non-lawyer in typical office jobs until I was 42 years old. I did “everything an English major can do.” Book and magazine publishing, journalism, copy editing, hired research, genealogy, script writing, advertising, public relations. Hated it all. Offices. Blargh.

   Then I went to law school, later than most. It was definitely do-able but I should have bitten the bullet and gone sooner. Being an older student was an advantage, in fact. It meant I knew what the professors were on about, when they needed to intimidate the kids. I have good friends from among my classmates, many of whom are two decades younger than me, and that’s just fine, we’re lawyer colleagues now. The age difference was there, but was totally workable, sometimes enjoyable (I watched the dating scene, with all its random radical shifts and changes, with bemusement, for example), usually unimportant.

   Becoming a lawyer made offices tolerable for me. I still hate them, but now they pay me enough and give me enough respect that I can stick around without throwing a chair through a window every Monday. And I can walk away at a moment’s notice now.

   In the simplest “rational economic” sense, being a lawyer is better than not being a lawyer. Presuming you’re going to have an office job in which you do the behest of the leaders of a larger organization, in which you engage with the written word in printed form on 8-and-a-half-by-11 sheets of paper and you have an email address at the organization and you go to meetings and you accomplish basic tasks that require organizational skills and some kind of timeliness and you understand many of the nuances of Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, well … you’d much rather be a lawyer than NOT be a lawyer to do all of that. You can either be the Ron Livingston character in “Office Space” or you can be his lawyer. Both options are mostly just office jobs, mostly just rather grind-like, sometimes soul-destroying. Both options have the potential for domineering supervisors and irrational company policies and idiot ladies who answer the phone in annoying ways and office microwaves and printers that don’t work. Both options have the potential for doing good work to help people. But only one of those options has the potential for you to make up your own destiny rather than being at the behest of the Lumbergs of the world, being lucrative ENOUGH that you can probably move to a better office setting if you find yourself in one that does not suit you, or if you need to change cities, or if you choose to leave the law.

   There are a thousand types of law. If you like boat captains and major international shipping companies, there’s Admiralty law. If you like saving the whales and the trees, there’s Environmental law. If you want to stick it to the rich and think the common man is getting screwed over, there’s Employment law. Similarly, if you want to help the companies that employ our citizenry and think the common man has tried to nick too much money for too little work, there’s Employment law. The law is on both sides (and it ought to be).

   What being a lawyer is NOT, is a quick path to a high-paying job. In the 1980s and 1990s, America was over-lawyered and new graduates were making big big money simply by passing the bar exam and going through the requisite drudgery at any law office in the country. By about the year 2010, all that had changed. Now, many law graduates never get the salary that should be commensurate with their level of debt. Even if they manage to attend an “elite” school with high ranking, they may not be making enough money to cover their student loans. And if they attend one of the nation’s many many “non-elite” schools, their employment prospects are even more dismal. Do the financial research. You MUST use reliable, verifiable sources to determine your realistic salary expectations, before you go into debt for law school. Inside statistics are grossly inflated. People in the industry of the law are deliberately misleading about how well lawyers do. Many potential employers do not understand the factual statistics, many others do understand them and deliberately obfuscate them, nearly all insiders believe things will be “easy” and think of those who did not find it “easy” as slackers. Ask for data. It was regularly hinted to me that people made $150K out of law school in the year 2011. I got the impression that this meant that the average salary was $150K. No, it turned out, that amount was likely for only 1 in 100 graduates. SOME did make that amount. The VAST MAJORITY did not. You must look up your school, your likelihoods, your generation’s statistics.

   Also, what being a lawyer is NOT, is working with your hands, working outdoors, working with people’s emotions or their physical health, working with animals, working with plants, working on cars, working in exciting settings where emergencies are alleviated, working with music or painting or dance. It is an OFFICE JOB and has all the negatives of that fact.

   But I’m glad I went to law school. I use it for a variety of things, only some of which are traditionally “working as a lawyer.” I’ve been a health care executive, and a dump truck company insurance broker, and I’ve managed real estate. Having law licenses (which you don’t get in law school; you take State exams for the license) are helpful. Having law school knowledge was more helpful.

   I suggest you get a job as a paralegal, or as a secretary to a paralegal, or as a floor-mopper for a secretary to a paralegal. Learn what they do all day. It will stand you in good stead for law school applications, will give you a clue what the day is like, will introduce you to the pin-headed thinking necessary.

   Also, thou shalt take an LSAT preparation course. Period. There is no negotiating on prep for LSAT or (later) the bar exam. Nobody passes without taking Kaplan or Themis or similar.

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7. DatesForFun

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   not so much crazy as dumb. law
   school is expensive and lawyer jobs are in short supply

   did you do any research at all on this?

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8. Simulation_Complete

   Kasım 28, 2025 - 5:36 am

   I don’t think the age is the issue. The issue is do you have any obligations that you will have to put on hold or sacrifice (time with immediate family, kids, working full time) to study hard and get good grades? Also making absolutely sure that Law is the path you want to go down. There are many bad aspects about being a lawyer (source: my cousin is a lawyer and vents to me weekly/biweekly about what he hates about the job) that a lot of people don’t consider

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