Need advice Forum

[withoutapaddle]

So I'm scheduled to take the June LSAT and got two T-50 schools to accept my June LSAT for admission to the Fall of 2014 class.

However today I got an email from a Top 2 investment bank in the USA for an interview to be a securities analyst .I was planning to go to law school for securities and finance law.I was wondering if I'm offered the job should I take it and postpone law school for a year?

The only issue I have with this is that I'll be 29 when I graduate law school if I postpone for a year. The only positive is that I'd have another year work experience which would look positive for JD/MBA programs 3 year programs such as Cornell-NU-UPENN (Wharton and NU being huge stretches).

[ManoftheHour]

Wrong forum dude. I'd take the job just because you have to retake anyway. 29 is NOT old. There are people on there older than that. This is your career. Put yourself in the best position you can. Even if you think 29 is old, is 28 that much younger?! Don't short change yourself.

[withoutapaddle]

What forum should I place it in?

Also how do employers view age at OCI?

Thanks

[A. Nony Mouse]

0Ls aren't allowed to post in Legal Employment, so it should go in Ask a Law Student/Graduate. (I'll move it.)

And starting at 29 isn't old, at all. I know plenty of people who ended up in biglaw in their early 30s. You may run into questions about how well you can take orders from someone younger than you are or start at the bottom doing the grunt work, but as long as you have convincing answers for those questions, you'll be fine.

[Johann]

If you get the job, take it for sure. Work in it 2 years and then get an MBA.

[withoutapaddle]

So yo don't think I should bother with the JD?

[reasonable_man]

Take the job at the top 2 I-Bank. Law will always be there. 29 is not old.

[withoutapaddle]

I have four interviews with the president and three Vice Presidents on Monday so we'll see how it goes

Don't know what the hell I'm going to talk about for two and half hours