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I want to get an idea of how law students are fairing in terms of summer employment and post 3L employment.

edit: added option 7

Seems like things are positive. Bump.

you're going to get selection bias, though, bc people who have jobs will be more inclined to respond.

True, I just wanted a sampling of TLSrs though.

somewhatwayward wrote:you're going to get selection bias, though, bc people who have jobs will be more inclined to respond.

I'm not so sure if this is an accurate assumption. In fact, the opposite may be true: posters here seem more than willing to voice concerns about their lack of employment.

It'd be nice if there were options for paid/unpaid summer job, at least for 1Ls.

I thought about adding paid/unpaid but that would make the poll a little too complex. If anything I would have done paid/unpaid 2L jobs. 1L doesn't matter.

Anonymous Loser wrote:

somewhatwayward wrote:you're going to get selection bias, though, bc people who have jobs will be more inclined to respond.

I'm not so sure if this is an accurate assumption. In fact, the opposite may be true: posters here seem more than willing to voice concerns about their lack of employment.

The real overarching selection bias is polling the forums. This place is about as far from a nonrandom sample of law students as you can get. But still, if the OP just wants to know if there is a nontrivial amount of people with jobs to make him/herself feel better about going to law school (and I of course would like to know the same), and identifies with the posters as his peers and doesn't care as long as he sees decent numbers and whether or not you can draw a statistically valid conclusion be damned, then yes. Fuck.

FalafelWaffle wrote:

Anonymous Loser wrote:

somewhatwayward wrote:you're going to get selection bias, though, bc people who have jobs will be more inclined to respond.

I'm not so sure if this is an accurate assumption. In fact, the opposite may be true: posters here seem more than willing to voice concerns about their lack of employment.

The real overarching selection bias is polling the forums. This place is about as far from a nonrandom sample of law students as you can get. But still, if the OP just wants to know if there is a nontrivial amount of people with jobs to make him/herself feel better about going to law school (and I of course would like to know the same), and identifies with the posters as his peers and doesn't care as long as he sees decent numbers and whether or not you can draw a statistically valid conclusion be damned, then yes. Fuck.

fwiw, the 10/11 of the 2Ls with jerbs are HYS LR folks, and the 1 non is an IPer with a Ph.D. in molecular biology.

[quote="FalafelWaffle"][quote="Anonymous Loser"][quote="somewhatwayward"]you're going to get selection bias, though, bc people who have jobs will be more inclined to respond.[/quote]

I'm not so sure if this is an accurate assumption. In fact, the opposite may be true: posters here seem more than willing to voice concerns about their lack of employment.[/quote]

The real overarching selection bias is polling the forums. This place is about as far from a nonrandom sample of law students as you can get. But still, if the OP just wants to know if there is a nontrivial amount of people with jobs to make him/herself feel better about going to law school (and I of course would like to know the same), and identifies with the posters as his peers and doesn't care as long as he sees decent numbers and whether or not you can draw a statistically valid conclusion be damned, then yes. Fuck.[/quote]

I'm a 2L, I have a job, and I don't go to HYS. I am just curious as to the job status for TLSrs.

^
you missed the joke.

Cal4future wrote:

FalafelWaffle wrote:

Anonymous Loser wrote:

somewhatwayward wrote:you're going to get selection bias, though, bc people who have jobs will be more inclined to respond.

I'm not so sure if this is an accurate assumption. In fact, the opposite may be true: posters here seem more than willing to voice concerns about their lack of employment.

The real overarching selection bias is polling the forums. This place is about as far from a nonrandom sample of law students as you can get. But still, if the OP just wants to know if there is a nontrivial amount of people with jobs to make him/herself feel better about going to law school (and I of course would like to know the same), and identifies with the posters as his peers and doesn't care as long as he sees decent numbers and whether or not you can draw a statistically valid conclusion be damned, then yes. Fuck.

I'm a 2L, I have a job, and I don't go to HYS. I am just curious as to the job status for TLSrs.

My joke at least was that halfway through critiquing the poll I realized that it was something I would have done and psychologically benefit from anyway.

It was far too logical and probable to be a joke. haha

so is a 3L with a clerkship considered a 3L without permanent employment then?

are we counting RAing as a job?