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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A slightly different perspective that I think might be valuable here. I grew up MC and knew as young as junior high that I wanted to be an attorney. I attended a top college and while attending admitted students weekend at a top school, I ran into a man who said, like me, he was a first generation lawyer. He was adamant that he was going into a public interest career, preferably something like legal aid. I can still remember the utter stock that registered in me - I knew that law degree was going to cost $200k+ and it boggled my mind that anyone would go into material debt and not try to make serious money afterwards. My 25 year old brain literally couldn’t compute it.

Anyhow, I graduated, did BigLaw for enough years to pay off $200k+ of debt and interest, and the pivoted to being in house at a medium company. I love what I do, but I’ve often thought back to that young man and wondered how things panned out for him. Did low income protection plans pay off his loans? If they did, how’s he muddling housing and childcare? I thought of him again as I read this thread. I think it just goes to show you how different people are. It never occurred to me that “helping people” or “passion” should be a major factor in career choice. To be clear, I dont want a job that hurts people and I want to (and do) love being an attorney, but it was always critically important to me to do intellectually interesting work + be well paid for it. And in the legal profession, being plaintiff side doesn’t always mean you have honorable clients. Just as many hustlers on the corporate side. [/quote]
Some us have intellectually stimulating careers that don’t pay well.  The two are not always related. And it’s one thing to say, I decided XYZ was important to me when selecting a career.  But to simply not be able to understand why people have different priorities (helping others, doing something they are passionate about) is such black/white thinking.  [/quote]

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