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Law school students: Would it be a good idea to work on the weekends in law school?

JustBelieve wrote:Law school students: Would it be a good idea to work on the weekends in law school?

Work as in school work or work work?

blowhard wrote:

JustBelieve wrote:Law school students: Would it be a good idea to work on the weekends in law school?

Work as in school work or work work?

Work as in any type of employment, just to bring in some cash.

JustBelieve wrote:

blowhard wrote:

JustBelieve wrote:Law school students: Would it be a good idea to work on the weekends in law school?

Work as in school work or work work?

Work as in any type of employment, just to bring in some cash.

No, I'd recommend you not work at all. There is a reason the ABA highly discourages this (and imposes a limit on hours). Some schools make you sign a pledge saying you won't work at all during 1L.

I wouldn't recommend planning to regularly work on weekends while in school - I think it's different if you're short on cash and spend the occasional friday working the street, but on a scheduled basis is probably a bad idea

Jackie O wrote:I wouldn't recommend planning to regularly work on weekends while in school - I think it's different if you're short on cash and spend the occasional friday working the street, but on a scheduled basis is probably a bad idea

QFP

I almost voted yes, until I read down and realized you meant a JOB, not school work. I am betting the two who voted yes did the same thing as I almost did.

get a job teaching ACT or SAT for the princeton review, kaplan, etc. after your first class the material pretty much teaches itself, and every other week you get to proctor tests which means you get paid to sit there and study. and it gives you good public speaking experience, which can be useful for certain fields of law. can't beat it, imo.

betasteve wrote:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7E82ozXyNjk

Working for the weekend ≠ working on the weekend.

RC, Beta.

Like everything in law... it "depends".

What type of job?

I have a library job lined up... My job is sitting at the front desk and getting paid $10 an hour to study (2x a week). Occasionally someone will prob ask where a certain book is, or how to print, etc... Whatever. I can deal with that. Besides, I'll basically know where every book/supp I need is located.

ps. I do not have spellcheck.

soaponarope wrote:Like everything in law... it "depends".

What type of job?

I have a library job lined up... My job is sitting at the front desk and getting paid $10 an hour to study (2x a week). Occasionally someone will prob ask where a certain book is, or how to print, etc... Whatever. I can deal with that. Besides, I'll basically know where every book/supp I need is located.

ps. I do not have spellcheck.

Sure you do. Or at least you should. The original spellcheck: two eyes and a brain.

Bosque wrote:

soaponarope wrote:Like everything in law... it "depends".

What type of job?

I have a library job lined up... My job is sitting at the front desk and getting paid $10 an hour to study (2x a week). Occasionally someone will prob ask where a certain book is, or how to print, etc... Whatever. I can deal with that. Besides, I'll basically know where every book/supp I need is located.

ps. I do not have spellcheck.

Sure you do. Or at least you should. The original spellcheck: two eyes and a brain.

Internet Explorer does not have a spellcheck... so no, I don't have one. As for two eyes and a brain, well... I am human. "ps. I do not have a spellcheck" is my moniker just so prententious asshole (like yourself) can keep your oh-so rightousness to yourself.

Yeah I just made the mistake of thinking you meant "do school work on weekends". No you should probably not be doing work work as a 1L unless you are the sort of person who can live with having no free time, and then you should probably be full gunning anyways.

I don't think a little tutoring would hurt if you have a good lsat, but beyond that I wouldn't even think about it. The benefit just isn't there unless working is a necessity, in which case you might want to save before going to LS so it isn't.

And even though you didn't ask, you should do school work on weekends.

teebone51 wrote:get a job teaching ACT or SAT for the princeton review, kaplan, etc. after your first class the material pretty much teaches itself, and every other week you get to proctor tests which means you get paid to sit there and study. and it gives you good public speaking experience, which can be useful for certain fields of law. can't beat it, imo.

I do this. I won't be teaching any proper classes this term (due to my schedule being all over the place), but I'll be proctoring. You get paid for 4 hours to sit and study. It's pretty effing awesome. I hope to teach a class next term though...I'll give up a whopping 3 hours or so a week of my time for an extra bit of change in my pocket.

Not a good idea, unless you can book brief while in the break room- which is an equally bad idea.

I worked about 20-30 hours on weekends & Fridays. Did pretty well during 1L. However, I enjoy working and can't stand to have down time.

pandacot wrote:I worked about 20-30 hours on weekends & Fridays. Did pretty well during 1L. However, I enjoy working and can't stand to have down time.

Do you think if you would have spent that extra 20-30 hours studying you would have done better 1L? Or you think it would have been overkill / you wouldn't be able to study that much more..?

thecilent wrote:

pandacot wrote:I worked about 20-30 hours on weekends & Fridays. Did pretty well during 1L. However, I enjoy working and can't stand to have down time.

Do you think if you would have spent that extra 20-30 hours studying you would have done better 1L? Or you think it would have been overkill / you wouldn't be able to study that much more..?

I got almost all A's and nothing below a B+, so there was certainly room for improvement. I studied a lot during the week, especially during the first semester. I studied much less during the second semester.
There is always some area of law that could be studied more during 1L, but studying 7-5 (or so) on weekdays was enough for me to understand most of the material.

pandacot wrote:

thecilent wrote:

pandacot wrote:I worked about 20-30 hours on weekends & Fridays. Did pretty well during 1L. However, I enjoy working and can't stand to have down time.

Do you think if you would have spent that extra 20-30 hours studying you would have done better 1L? Or you think it would have been overkill / you wouldn't be able to study that much more..?

I got almost all A's and nothing below a B+, so there was certainly room for improvement. I studied a lot during the week, especially during the first semester. I studied much less during the second semester.
There is always some area of law that could be studied more during 1L, but studying 7-5 (or so) on weekdays was enough for me to understand most of the material.

Gotya, gotya.