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meliorquamheri wrote:Hi guys,

I've already applied and gotten into law school, but am now having an existential career crisis. I'm a college senior, and have never worked full-time before except in internships. My choice is basically going to HS (which I've already been admitted to) or possibly Y, or accept a job paying $100k per year, plus a substantial signing bonus and non-trivial stock options, to work 40 hours per week in the Bay Area at "a social network".

Benefits of the former: prestige, possibly higher long-term income, suit-wearingness (I like suits).
Downsides: soul-crushingness, possibly terrible job prospects, large up-front costs since I don't anticipate financial aid. But my education would pretty much be paid for through intergenerational transfers. Also, I might not enjoy the work.

Benefits of the latter: a really, really enjoyable lifestyle (I interned there over the summer; free food, free stuff, sweet offices, work from home if you want to).
Downsides: Unclear future prospects. I would be an engineer, and it seems like engineers often have pretty stagnant career paths. Also, I don't really enjoy the work (sitting in front of a computer all day implementing algorithms)

I know that both of these are pretty attractive prospects and I'm lucky to be where I am. I don't mean this as a dick-ish flame, I'm just wondering whether people might have been in similar situations and what they did.

Thanks in advance.

northwood wrote:take the job

northwood wrote:take the job

dextermorgan wrote:Dude, take the job, wait for the bottom to fall out, then go to HYS, have a killer story for OCI, profit.

Much better than being half a mil in the whole with a 160k job.

Hell, take the job, then go to Stanford and rake in the dough working for tech companies for the rest of your life.

Are you stupid?

camelcrema wrote:Take the job.

Facebook is set to go public in 2012. Cash out on the stock options. Finance law school education.

LSATWIZ wrote: Your LSAT score is good for 5 years.

Law school will still be here in five years.

northwood wrote:take the job

concurrent fork wrote:A position requiring zero experience which nets you 100k, a "substantial" signing bonus, work from home, 40 hr/wk, free food, and stock options? But you are considering law because you like wearing suits?

meliorquamheri wrote:Hi guys,

I've already applied and gotten into law school, but am now having an existential career crisis. I'm a college senior, and have never worked full-time before except in internships. My choice is basically going to HS (which I've already been admitted to) or possibly Y, or accept a job paying $100k per year, plus a substantial signing bonus and non-trivial stock options, to work 40 hours per week in the Bay Area at "a social network".

Benefits of the former: prestige, possibly higher long-term income, suit-wearingness (I like suits).
Downsides: soul-crushingness, possibly terrible job prospects, large up-front costs since I don't anticipate financial aid. But my education would pretty much be paid for through intergenerational transfers. Also, I might not enjoy the work.

Benefits of the latter: a really, really enjoyable lifestyle (I interned there over the summer; free food, free stuff, sweet offices, work from home if you want to).
Downsides: Unclear future prospects. I would be an engineer, and it seems like engineers often have pretty stagnant career paths. Also, I don't really enjoy the work (sitting in front of a computer all day implementing algorithms)

I know that both of these are pretty attractive prospects and I'm lucky to be where I am. I don't mean this as a dick-ish flame, I'm just wondering whether people might have been in similar situations and what they did.

Thanks in advance.

Veyron wrote:

meliorquamheri wrote:Hi guys,

I've already applied and gotten into law school, but am now having an existential career crisis. I'm a college senior, and have never worked full-time before except in internships. My choice is basically going to HS (which I've already been admitted to) or possibly Y, or accept a job paying $100k per year, plus a substantial signing bonus and non-trivial stock options, to work 40 hours per week in the Bay Area at "a social network".

Benefits of the former: prestige, possibly higher long-term income, suit-wearingness (I like suits).
Downsides: soul-crushingness, possibly terrible job prospects, large up-front costs since I don't anticipate financial aid. But my education would pretty much be paid for through intergenerational transfers. Also, I might not enjoy the work.

Benefits of the latter: a really, really enjoyable lifestyle (I interned there over the summer; free food, free stuff, sweet offices, work from home if you want to).
Downsides: Unclear future prospects. I would be an engineer, and it seems like engineers often have pretty stagnant career paths. Also, I don't really enjoy the work (sitting in front of a computer all day implementing algorithms)

I know that both of these are pretty attractive prospects and I'm lucky to be where I am. I don't mean this as a dick-ish flame, I'm just wondering whether people might have been in similar situations and what they did.

Thanks in advance.

You seem too unintelligent to analyze issues properly in law school. Let me help you:

Issue 1: Do I want to be a lawyer?

Issue 2: If yes, do I want to be a lawyer badly enough to work much harder than I would in this job for what, after debt payments, will likely be a similar rate of pay.

If yes, go to law school.

If no, go put on your T-Shirt and take the hippy-dippy job.


You better hope you get admitted to Y so you don't have to deal with grades.