Re: DO NOT GO TO LAW SCHOOL RIGHT NOW
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2009 8:12 pm
haha, wave.Yimbeezy wrote:Why the real questions? I'm practicing for my future career as a sound byte journalist. It's the wave of the future dude.
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haha, wave.Yimbeezy wrote:Why the real questions? I'm practicing for my future career as a sound byte journalist. It's the wave of the future dude.
FWIW, UVA did a study on its graduates from around 1990 or so and found that ~20 years out their graduates had a median annual household income of $250k, with around 10% of graduates reporting $1m or more in annual household income. So yes, a lot of law grads make $40k, and yes, times are different, but $40k is extremely far from reality for most graduates from top schools over the last few decades.Mr. T6 wrote:Less debt. You'll likely make the same amount in the long run. You do realize that many lawyers ten years out earn as little as 40k? I make 37k with a bachelor's from my state school.Bronte wrote:I understand there's been deferrels, etc., and that there will be some backup, but can you really say the class of 2012 and 2013 are screwed, considering it's now, um, 2009? We know the economy's bad. Do you think it's looking better with a bachelor's degree?
lol!Mr. T6 wrote:what makes you think you're smarter? everyone in law school is very, very smart.Yimbeezy wrote:I think I found your problem.Kompressor wrote: I'm not really smart enough
It's really more like a T-3 game these days.Kompressor wrote:Helmholtz wrote: Well, there are still jobs out there to be had, it's just that the number has severely shrunk. I THINK that there are enough out there for the folks in the T-14 to get by, but my best advice would be to talk with people at the schools, and by "people" I mean the students.
If you need anymore tinfoil for your head armor, I have some that you can borrow.ruleser wrote:Um, hate to feed the worry, but this is just the beginning. Next year we will be thinking this year wasn't so bad. This is collapse. Half a decade to begin the rebuild - I'm talking general economy, not law in particular, but of course law will suffer the same. 25%+ unemployment, collapse of the dollar, beyond what the Great Depression was.
Just for the record, I've been writing about this for years and years, told of this downturn specifically in 2005. It's not ending anytime soon, because nothing has been done to address the causes, which are not mortgage loans - those were just a symptom.
When I wrote in 2003 that the recovery was not recovery but a prep for disaster people said what you just did, and when I wrote in 2005 that the depression/collapse had begun and to get out of the markets right then, more said the same. Everything has played out exactly as I've written - I haven't had to change a single prediction or article - instead everyone like you changes to adjust to it playing out.kevinm wrote:If you need anymore tinfoil for your head armor, I have some that you can borrow.ruleser wrote:Um, hate to feed the worry, but this is just the beginning. Next year we will be thinking this year wasn't so bad. This is collapse. Half a decade to begin the rebuild - I'm talking general economy, not law in particular, but of course law will suffer the same. 25%+ unemployment, collapse of the dollar, beyond what the Great Depression was.
Just for the record, I've been writing about this for years and years, told of this downturn specifically in 2005. It's not ending anytime soon, because nothing has been done to address the causes, which are not mortgage loans - those were just a symptom.
Sorry, but this sounds like you've gone off the deep end and are actually hoping that this is what comes to pass, if only to prove yourself right.ruleser wrote:Um, hate to feed the worry, but this is just the beginning. Next year we will be thinking this year wasn't so bad. This is collapse. Half a decade to begin the rebuild - I'm talking general economy, not law in particular, but of course law will suffer the same. 25%+ unemployment, collapse of the dollar, beyond what the Great Depression was.
Just for the record, I've been writing about this for years and years, told of this downturn specifically in 2005. It's not ending anytime soon, because nothing has been done to address the causes, which are not mortgage loans - those were just a symptom.
ruleser wrote:When I wrote in 2003 that the recovery was not recovery but a prep for disaster people said what you just did, and when I wrote in 2005 that the depression/collapse had begun and to get out of the markets right then, more said the same. Everything has played out exactly as I've written - I haven't had to change a single prediction or article - instead everyone like you changes to adjust to it playing out.kevinm wrote:If you need anymore tinfoil for your head armor, I have some that you can borrow.ruleser wrote:Um, hate to feed the worry, but this is just the beginning. Next year we will be thinking this year wasn't so bad. This is collapse. Half a decade to begin the rebuild - I'm talking general economy, not law in particular, but of course law will suffer the same. 25%+ unemployment, collapse of the dollar, beyond what the Great Depression was.
Just for the record, I've been writing about this for years and years, told of this downturn specifically in 2005. It's not ending anytime soon, because nothing has been done to address the causes, which are not mortgage loans - those were just a symptom.
You can read for yourself if you wish - The Moderate Independent
I don't want it to be true either, I just want to go to law school and have it be like it was. But this is real. This is unprecedented - for America; it is par for the course in the history of nations. How great is Greece now? Rome? How is the USSR doing - oh yeah, that doesn't exist anymore. Bad economic choices = collapse. It's real. It's hear. I'd love to be wrong. But I haven't been yet, and I've been writing about this for more than half a decade.
This is a response I can appreciate.rayiner wrote:Everyone probably thought that those predicting the fall of Rome were kooks until it actually happened. Of course, kooks probably predicted the fall of Rome hundreds of times before they got it right...
In this particular case, I'm skeptical of the fact that most projections regarding the demise of the US rest on financial arguments. Frankly, I'm a nuts and bolts kind of guy --- I think the economy has a whole is a lot more resilient to fluctuations in the financial industry than the self-aggrandizing finance guys like to believe.
If you look at the fall of civilizations, there were nuts and bolts reasons behind the collapse. The middle eastern empires fell due to environmental crisis. Rome fell due to a complete over-extension of their military power. Much of the real suffering during the Great Depression was the product of the Dust Bowl gutting agricultural production in the heartland. Europe collapsed after WWII because a huge fraction of their production had been wasted blowing each other up, and much of their core labor force had been lost in the war.
I don't think derivatives and obscure financial instruments are going to be the undoing of the US economy. If anything is going to end the American Empire, it's going to be the demographic crisis caused by the retirement of the baby boomer generation.
Have you ever read Boomsday by Christopher Buckley? You might like it. He's the guy who wrote Thank You for Smoking. That's what it's about (kind of). It's a very fun read.rayiner wrote:I don't think derivatives and obscure financial instruments are going to be the undoing of the US economy. If anything is going to end the American Empire, it's going to be the demographic crisis caused by the retirement of the baby boomer generation.
Lily wrote:Have you ever read Boomsday by Christopher Buckley? You might like it. He's the guy who wrote Thank You for Smoking. That's what it's about (kind of). It's a very fun read.
Holy shit, it's like the author has been cribbing from the manifesto I've been working on.she politely suggests on her personal blog that Baby Boomers be given government incentives to kill themselves by age seventy-five.
What's happening has little to do with those. It is free trade, outsourcing, downsizing, and big box stores - main street is out of business, factories are gone, service jobs are now in India - Americans haven't made ends meet in a generation, have only gotten by by using credit. Now, like an obese person who finally got diabetes/heart disease, the gig is up.rayiner wrote:I don't think derivatives and obscure financial instruments are going to be the undoing of the US economy. If anything is going to end the American Empire, it's going to be the demographic crisis caused by the retirement of the baby boomer generation.
There is no way to have a sensible debate with someone who exaggerates so much and makes references to irrelevant analogies.ruleser wrote:What's happening has little to do with those. It is free trade, outsourcing, downsizing, and big box stores - main street is out of business, factories are gone, service jobs are now in India - Americans haven't made ends meet in a generation, have only gotten by by using credit. Now, like an obese person who finally got diabetes/heart disease, the gig is up.rayiner wrote:I don't think derivatives and obscure financial instruments are going to be the undoing of the US economy. If anything is going to end the American Empire, it's going to be the demographic crisis caused by the retirement of the baby boomer generation.
Sorry if this is over your head - there is nothing irrelevant about the analogy - people have overconsumed, so are obese with debt. And this is not exaggeration - a money manager with a big firm (since bankrupt) laid it out plainly about a year ago - they know what is going on - he said the debt level dwarfs what it was before the Depression. People said what you are when I said in 2005 get out of the market now, the crash is about to begin... talk to me in a year.rayiner wrote:There is no way to have a sensible debate with someone who exaggerates so much and makes references to irrelevant analogies.ruleser wrote:What's happening has little to do with those. It is free trade, outsourcing, downsizing, and big box stores - main street is out of business, factories are gone, service jobs are now in India - Americans haven't made ends meet in a generation, have only gotten by by using credit. Now, like an obese person who finally got diabetes/heart disease, the gig is up.rayiner wrote:I don't think derivatives and obscure financial instruments are going to be the undoing of the US economy. If anything is going to end the American Empire, it's going to be the demographic crisis caused by the retirement of the baby boomer generation.
I'm a noobie, but one thing I've learned: Don't address prolific posters with the phrase "Sorry if this is over your head."ruleser wrote:Sorry if this is over your head - there is nothing irrelevant about the analogy - people have overconsumed, so are obese with debt. And this is not exaggeration - a money manager with a big firm (since bankrupt) laid it out plainly about a year ago - they know what is going on - he said the debt level dwarfs what it was before the Depression. People said what you are when I said in 2005 get out of the market now, the crash is about to begin... talk to me in a year.
Sorry if this is over your head, Bronte, but the economy is worse than a goldfish in a mineshaft sucking on a lolipop. Talk to me in a year. You'll be singing a different tune. To use an analogy you might be able to wrap your feeble mind around, the economy is like a crackwhore hoolahooping sideways down a freeway. And you can quote me on that, buddy.Bronte wrote:I'm a noobie, but one thing I've learned: Don't address prolific posters with the phrase "Sorry if this is over your head."ruleser wrote:Sorry if this is over your head - there is nothing irrelevant about the analogy - people have overconsumed, so are obese with debt. And this is not exaggeration - a money manager with a big firm (since bankrupt) laid it out plainly about a year ago - they know what is going on - he said the debt level dwarfs what it was before the Depression. People said what you are when I said in 2005 get out of the market now, the crash is about to begin... talk to me in a year.
The whole "talk to me in a year" banter is going to blow up in the face of every conspiracy theorist (yourself included) who has predicted the Apocalypse. The economy has taken a hit (unfortunately for your theory, the Dow is back over 9000 and employment numbers have turned around), but most of us have enough calm and common sense not to cry wolf. Shit is bad, but the end is not neigh. Get a grip.
Get back to me with some content. (I like numbers, etc., not bullshit.)PKSebben wrote:Sorry if this is over your head, Bronte, but the economy is worse than a goldfish in a mineshaft sucking on a lolipop. Talk to me in a year. You'll be singing a different tune. To use an analogy you might be able to wrap your feeble mind around, the economy is like a crackwhore hoolahooping sideways down a freeway. And you can quote me on that, buddy.
I'm sorry somebody killed your sense of humor.Bronte wrote:Get back to me with some content. (I like numbers, etc., not bullshit.)PKSebben wrote:Sorry if this is over your head, Bronte, but the economy is worse than a goldfish in a mineshaft sucking on a lollipop. Talk to me in a year. You'll be singing a different tune. To use an analogy you might be able to wrap your feeble mind around, the economy is like a crackwhore hoolahooping sideways down a freeway. And you can quote me on that, buddy.