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25 years old and deep in debt

Started by CountDeMoney, September 10, 2012, 10:43:12 PM

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garbon

Quote from: Ideologue on May 14, 2014, 12:39:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 14, 2014, 12:32:30 PM
Oddly with a quick google search - most hits for that phrase seem to be people attacking its validity. :unsure:

"meth cases Kentucky" or "versatile J.D."?

"you can do anything with a law degree"
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."
I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

Ideologue

Quote from: Caliga on May 14, 2014, 12:30:23 PM
No offense dude, but I know a lot of lawyers (not even including the ones in this den of scum and villainy) and very few of them are unemployed. :sleep:

I bet a survey of lawyers you meet in a professional capacity who identify themselves as lawyers does wind up with a pretty high employment rate. :P

All the veterinarians I know are also employed.  100%.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Ideologue

Quote from: garbon on May 14, 2014, 12:44:33 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on May 14, 2014, 12:39:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 14, 2014, 12:32:30 PM
Oddly with a quick google search - most hits for that phrase seem to be people attacking its validity. :unsure:

"meth cases Kentucky" or "versatile J.D."?

"you can do anything with a law degree"

Yeah, it is a pretty thoroughly debunked myth, but what I really found interesting was the key quote from the actual HR person that lets us peek behind the curtain for a minute.  The belief that the JD, unlike just about any other degree, is an active hindrance, can sometimes seem like paranoia--but it really is how some HR folks think.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

alfred russel

Not to be discouraging, but I don't think it is paranoia.
They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

There's a fine line between salvation and drinking poison in the jungle.

I'm embarrassed. I've been making the mistake of associating with you. It won't happen again. :)
-garbon, February 23, 2014

Malthus

Quote from: Ideologue on May 14, 2014, 12:48:59 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 14, 2014, 12:44:33 PM
Quote from: Ideologue on May 14, 2014, 12:39:51 PM
Quote from: garbon on May 14, 2014, 12:32:30 PM
Oddly with a quick google search - most hits for that phrase seem to be people attacking its validity. :unsure:

"meth cases Kentucky" or "versatile J.D."?

"you can do anything with a law degree"

Yeah, it is a pretty thoroughly debunked myth, but what I really found interesting was the key quote from the actual HR person that lets us peek behind the curtain for a minute.  The belief that the JD, unlike just about any other degree, is an active hindrance, can sometimes seem like paranoia--but it really is how some HR folks think.

You have to think like an HR person, and then it totally makes sense.

'The guy has a JD, but he's not actually a lawyer. Why? Either he's a drifter type who doesn't know what the hell he wanted to do and keeps chopping and changing, deciding to go into law one year, that he doesn't like law the next; or he tried to be a lawyer, and failed at it. Either way, why do I want him?'
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

crazy canuck

I actively discourage my kids from going into law.  When I graduated there were limited opportunities.  Now I think there are even less.  The daughter of one of my partners is completing her third year of undergrad and she recently announced she wanted to go to law school.  We are planning the intervention as I type this.

The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.




The Brain

Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Barrister

Quote from: crazy canuck on May 14, 2014, 02:15:15 PM
I actively discourage my kids from going into law.  When I graduated there were limited opportunities.  Now I think there are even less.  The daughter of one of my partners is completing her third year of undergrad and she recently announced she wanted to go to law school.  We are planning the intervention as I type this.

I wouldn't encourage my boys to go into law, but actively discourage?

The profession has treated me pretty well, all things considered...

And as for STEM - my career options were much brighter after finishing law school than they were after my BSc.
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.

The Brain

BSc? Supposedly they get real degrees.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Ideologue

Quote from: Barrister on May 14, 2014, 02:26:36 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 14, 2014, 02:15:15 PM
I actively discourage my kids from going into law.  When I graduated there were limited opportunities.  Now I think there are even less.  The daughter of one of my partners is completing her third year of undergrad and she recently announced she wanted to go to law school.  We are planning the intervention as I type this.

I wouldn't encourage my boys to go into law, but actively discourage?

The profession has treated me pretty well, all things considered...

And as for STEM - my career options were much brighter after finishing law school than they were after my BSc.

I don't believe you for a minute.
Kinemalogue
Current reviews: The 'Burbs (9/10); Gremlins 2: The New Batch (9/10); John Wick: Chapter 2 (9/10); A Cure For Wellness (4/10)

Barrister

Quote from: Ideologue on May 14, 2014, 02:35:42 PM
Quote from: Barrister on May 14, 2014, 02:26:36 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on May 14, 2014, 02:15:15 PM
I actively discourage my kids from going into law.  When I graduated there were limited opportunities.  Now I think there are even less.  The daughter of one of my partners is completing her third year of undergrad and she recently announced she wanted to go to law school.  We are planning the intervention as I type this.

I wouldn't encourage my boys to go into law, but actively discourage?

The profession has treated me pretty well, all things considered...

And as for STEM - my career options were much brighter after finishing law school than they were after my BSc.

I don't believe you for a minute.

Believe it.  It was my crappy job with my BSc that convinced me to go to law school.

STEM degrees aren't all sunshine and lollipops, son. :contract:
Posts here are my own private opinions.  I do not speak for my employer.