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[quote=Anonymous]I am also the first lawyer in my family. When people ask me for advice about whether they should go to law school, I always say, have a plan. It doesn’t make sense to just think I’ll go to law school, the get a big law job and ride into the sunset… you might not get the job, and if you do, you might hate it or not be cut out for the grueling hours and minutiae. And don’t just think, oh I’ll just do big law until I pay off my debt… lifestyle creep is very real and it’s hard to find a good off-ramp. Now that I’m in my mid-40s, I only know a few people who stuck with big law and now make tons and tons of money as partners. Most of them are men, and they all still work insane hours and have a lot of stress. The happiest lawyers I know are senior level directors at non profits they love, lawyers who started their own firms in specialized fields, or lobbyists. [/quote]
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