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<p>Even more important, only half of law school grads find a legal job requiring JD.</p>
<p>I thought you need a high GPA for law school, 3.5+GPA seems a little low.</p>
<p>“So, cobrat, You don’t have any HS classmates/friends/cousins that are burned out lawyers, teachers , or businessmen?”</p>
<p>“Yes, I do have some friends who are burnt-out teachers…mostly college classmates. Major difference was going into teaching was their own idea, not one pushed by parents or others”</p>
<p>I think you missed the joke, there, cobrat. You were being made fun of because there isn’t a topic for which you don’t supposedly have high school classmates / friends / cousins who fit what is being discussed. </p>
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The IT field can be trained with just a few classes from CC. I know in the dot com peak, the IT person sat next to me was calling local community colleges for IT trainee that she was going to pay 6 figures. </p>
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<p>Some of those CC people will thrive; most of them will settle to their level of capability and get by doing desktop support and similar. There is nothing wrong with desktop support, but the pay is usually less than 6 figures. </p>
<p>I know that times are different now, but many years ago, after getting a bimodal review (“IxnayBob should either be promoted or fired; he finishes his day’s work in an hour and distracts the other workers”), I went to my reviewer’s boss and told him that I knew how to program (based on modifying ONE Fortran program in school) and wanted to work for him. He looked at me for a bit, leaned back in his chair, and said “IxnayBob, if you’re half as quick as you have nerve, you’re going to work out fine.” I enjoyed my career a lot, and did well-remunerated work for quite a few clients. </p>
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<p>Remember that IT is different from CS. Managing computers requires less technical skill and knowledge than designing and programming them (although someone with the latter skill and knowledge can do better at managing computers). IT majors in college are mostly business-based with some low level technical course work aimed at managing computers.</p>
<p>CS can be educated in ways other than traditional college education in a CS major, but all of those alternative means (self-education, “software development boot camps”, etc.) do require a relatively high level of ability and motivation to successfully do.</p>
<p>ucb, I wrote IT and I’m not confused with CS, I’m not sure why you wrote your post as if I was confused. Are you confused that I’m confused?
And yes I quite aware that law schools in the top tier requires very high GPA and high SAT. I used to frequent the law school forum that’s why I know and was surprised.</p>