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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a lawyer and enjoy it, but frankly I think my kid could do better. 
For a lot of people, including me, lawyer is a reliable transition path for kids from working class or LMC families. The next generation has more options, and is more likely to have a safety net that makes it easier to take risks. [/quote]
What do you think "better" is? I thought medicine may be better in that it seems more purposeful and often higher paying, but people on here complain about that as well. As an aside, I think it would be difficult to go from WC/LMC to BigLaw. Maybe from a funded Ivy undergrad, though. [/quote]

Why do you think it would be hard to go from WC/LMC to Biglaw?  I did, and honestly it was so much easier for me than any of the other associates I worked with.  I had had several manual labor jobs with very long hours, and grew up on a farm so went home from those and worked more.  Biglaw was easy and I was by far the top biller of my year, every year.  I got paid a ton of money to sit in a chair and work with my brain.  I think it was a lot harder for the wealthy kids who had never had worked more than 8 hours before in their lives.[/quote]

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