<p>I'm currently a junior in high school, i plan to major in political science and history, law and politics have always been my passion i love them both. My dream is to go to law school and become a lawyer i want to make a decent salary obviously and support my family but i just want to be a lawyer. I love reading, and studying things but all i hear is about how bad being a lawyer is now. The economy sucks for it, huge debt, long hours blahh blahhh! all i see can someone please give me good news about being a lawyer :/</p>
<p>The good news is that people who love reading and studying things tend to hav good long-term job prospects. Some of them become lawyers who enjoy doing their jobs over the long haul.</p>
<p>If you’ve been visiting this site for a while, you’ve been exposed to a lot of lamentations over the state of the job market for newly minted attorneys. It’s true that there is a surplus of them on the market today. An attorney informed me that there would likely be a serious glut of young lawyers on market by the time I finished law school in the mid eighties. He was correct. I didn’t get the type of job I wanted out of law school, but do have a job that makes me happy today, more a quarter of a century later, in an industry that barely existed when I started law school.</p>
<p>While you can’t dictate what the future holds for you, you can exercise more control over it than anyone else canby making more good decisions than bad ones along the way.</p>
<p>Everything you have heard is true, only worse.</p>
<p>We all must lead our own lives, but based not only upon my experience, but also upon the experience of a myriad of friends and co-workers who are also lawyers, in general, I would in general advise against it.</p>
<p>Twenty five years ago, I applied for a lousy job at a 15 man Newark, New Jersey law firm.</p>
<p>I got the job. The guy who hired me told me that he had gotten over 300 resumes for the position, including many from Harvard law school graduates, who used to work at top firms, but no longer. If he had ran a few more ads in the paper, he no doubt could have generated 500 resumes.</p>
<p>I know many people who went to law school and are not even working as lawyers anymore.
One is selling residential real estate. And she was from a top undergraduate school, and beautiful, so you can’t say it was her fault she didn’t do well. </p>
<p>There have been posts on CC where people actually hide the fact they went to law school, so they can at least get a paralegal job, and that such ads now often say “no lawyers need apply”</p>
<p>I know a girl who graduated New York Law School (not NYU), that NEVER got a legal job. </p>
<p>Of course, if you go to a top law school, you have a better chance of success, but only a slightly better chance, in my view. I say this because I know a girl who was law review at a top law school, and she started out her career great, working at a top law firm in Chicago, but within two years, she was working besides me in another lousy 15 man law firm, working 70 hours a week for surprisingly low money.</p>
<p>Now, all that being said, there is probably an over-supply of journalism majors, English majors, history majors, and political science majors. And some people in those fields still do well. If you really enjoy doing something, you might just do well at it. Forty years ago, my parents talked me out of majoring in journalism, because they said that it was simply too hard to get a newspaper job. Little did they know how right they would be, given the birth of the internet, but I will always wonder if I could have been a success in that field, nonetheless.</p>
<p>But three years of law school, and all that money, is a big investment.</p>
<p>You are a junior in high school. You won’t start law school, if you go, for six years assuming you go directly to college from high school and graduate from college in four years. You won’t be out of law school until nine years from now. No one knows what the economy for lawyers or otherwise will be like then. You should not bhe making any final decisions now about going or not going to law school or basing them on current economic conditions.</p>
<p>thanks thats what ive been trying to reassure myself, that hopefully it will be better by then i just wanted to hear someone say something good about being a lawyer since its what i want to do very badly oh well i’m still going to go because its what i want to do thanks everyone :)</p>
<p>are there any law schools accredited that will take a 3.3 gpa ? from UCF</p>