That too, but I think it is the methods of lawyers that they have ethical complaint about. Using any tactic available to win an argument. Not everyone thinks the ends justify the means.

As the economy goes further down the shitter this is increasingly the response. I was thinking about this the other day. Say you're a person who has had good grades growing up. You graduate from high school and go to college. You major in something you're "passionate" about (English, Philosophy, Fashion, etc.) and you do well. You graduate and find yourself in the job market but you can't seem to get anything terribly great. You have a worthless degree and little to no work experience except some work study job you did part time in college and you feel like a failure. What can you do? Law School! woo-hoo! You have been a professional student since you were 5 years old so continuing to do student things is right up your alley. It's easy to get into (no pesky science requirements like med school) and you have 3 more years to distinguish yourself and get a marketable skill set. It makes sense. You are 23 and have terrible career prospects with a worthless degree so why not go and do what you have been good at your whole life? School.

This may lead to some sad faces when you actually enter the profession and hate it or you do poorly due to lack of interest in the law but I can see why so many people fall back on law school. There are tons of people who go once they realize a BA in meaningless shit = you better keep going to school or work for peanuts while you try and move up the ladder (in a great majority of cases). For the record I'm not advising people to go to LS cuz you can't do anything with your BA I just can understand the thinking behind it because I find myself in this exact situation.

Absolutely true. Agreed. And, how disapointing that the law is used to circumvent the law (loose quote: Ambrose Pierce)

ahmm... I REALLY like my French cabinet, and I never considered becoming a carpenter. However, and this is an aside, I did enjoy learning about how it was made, how the drawers were dovetailed, the curing of the wood and the shaping of the veneer.

hmmm, sounds like a process that has been outlined in a LSAT RC passage

I know. sick, right?

OS, lovely words go with a lovely voice! ( I can hear it in the way you write, honestly) Yes, I sing too, not so much opera anymore. I LOVE La Boheme...thinking about the MET schedule just last night, haven't seen it in a long time.

YES! My name is ------ and I'm an INFP! Help! What am I doing here?I have strong T and E days, and one reason I'm looking forward to Law School, God willing, is because I want to cultivate those sides of myself, so find it fascinating and inspiring you went from I to E. I def can, given the right milieu. I just happen to be living out in provincial suburbia right now and AM sooo out of my elemnt, having exhausted the potential of this small town. Ugh, but I digress.

Have you ever sung the part of Mimi? Yes? Lucky girl!

OS, lovely words go with a lovely voice! ( I can hear it in the way you write, honestly) Yes, I sing too, not so much opera anymore. I LOVE La Boheme...thinking about the MET schedule just last night, haven't seen it in a long time.

YES! My name is ------ and I'm an INFP! Help! What am I doing here?I have strong T and E days, and one reason I'm looking forward to Law School, God willing, is because I want to cultivate those sides of myself, so find it fascinating and inspiring you went from I to E. I def can, given the right milieu. I just happen to be living out in provincial suburbia right now and AM sooo out of my elemnt, having exhausted the potential of this small town. Ugh, but I digress.

Have you ever sung the part of Mimi? Yes? Lucky girl!

In choosing a career I think it is important to like the activities of that career.
For instance, no one ever says 'I am passionate about being a bicycle messenger.' (maybe someone does, but no bike messenger I have ever met), it is more along the lines of 'I really like to ride my bicycle, and I am willing to ride my bicycle for 40+ hours/week. What career would allow me to ride my bicycle a lot?'

If you really like sitting and reading for hours and hours, and you like arguing about the material you have read, then being a lawyer makes sense. You have to like the very specific physical activity of what you are doing (bicycling, arguing, cooking, etc..). If you don't like measuring, cutting, and joining wood very precisely, don't go out and try to be a cabinet maker. Cabinet makers don't love the idea of cabinets- they like making things made of wood.

You are too sweet! Are you taking lessons now? I'm a light lyric soprano, so my voice isn't really big enough yet to sing Mimi. I could do Susanna in Marriage of Figaro, if I had time to go back to studying. I'd probably have to do the conservatory thing for real, and I don't know that I'd ever be good enough not to be disappointed in myself. What type of repertoire did/do you do?

What schools are you considering? Come to New York! I go to the Met as often as possible; I'm going on the 7th, actually. I've never seen Turandot, but many of my friends haven't been at all, and that needs to be remedied.

There are people like us in law school. If I meet anyone with even slight F tendencies, I am very happy, but then NT boys will do nicely. As for becoming an E, it happened so gradually I scarcely realized what was happening. I just realized my behavior was, for the most part, inconsistent with introversion. I love to get involved in other people's problems, and I'm not nearly private enough about my own. Most of all, I want to be useful to society, if I can be. Law school changes people quite profoundly. I feel a lot better about my own life since becoming a law student, and the people I've met are little short of amazing.

You are too sweet! Are you taking lessons now? I'm a light lyric soprano, so my voice isn't really big enough yet to sing Mimi. I could do Susanna in Marriage of Figaro, if I had time to go back to studying. I'd probably have to do the conservatory thing for real, and I don't know that I'd ever be good enough not to be disappointed in myself. What type of repertoire did/do you do?

What schools are you considering? Come to New York! I go to the Met as often as possible; I'm going on the 7th, actually. I've never seen Turandot, but many of my friends haven't been at all, and that needs to be remedied.

There are people like us in law school. If I meet anyone with even slight F tendencies, I am very happy, but then NT boys will do nicely. As for becoming an E, it happened so gradually I scarcely realized what was happening. I just realized my behavior was, for the most part, inconsistent with introversion. I love to get involved in other people's problems, and I'm not nearly private enough about my own. Most of all, I want to be useful to society, if I can be. Law school changes people quite profoundly. I feel a lot better about my own life since becoming a law student, and the people I've met are little short of amazing.

Mr. P ---Right, that's why I said that as aside. My next thought was that wanting to be a lawyer, for me, is exactly about wanting to not only see how it's made, but learning how to make it because I enjoy not only the finished product, but the process itself. My interest is in studying the law. Becoming a lawyer is almost secondary (almost). If we weren't living in the day and age of law schools I would literaly be READING the law right now. Just reading the law. And I mean that in the classic sense, studying law the way our forefathers did.