<p>I don’t see why the article is depressing. If anything, it confirms that taking a low-level entry level job can lead to bigger and better things. Many – if not most – of the paralegals at my law firm have J.D.s, so I don’t think it is depressing that a woman two years out of college got promoted to a paralegal position. At many firms, paralegals have a lot of responsibility and do a lot of analytical tasks. </p>
<p>I also don’t see a lot of long-time employees being pushed out of the door by young college graduates. Come to think of it, I wouldn’t be able to tell you whether most members of the non-professional staff went to college. (Except the late-night word-processing crew, who are all brilliant and extremely well-educated and are all writers or actors by day (some fairly well-known)).</p>