Food for Thought?

“Don’t Go To Law School, if …”, says, Scheherazade.

Don’t go to law school right out of college because you’re smart and you’ve been encouraged to by various history professors or relatives or because you like debating or arguing and you vaguely think you might want to get into politics someday. Don’t go to law school because you’re not sure what else to do, or because your parents really want you to. Or, at least, don’t go to a really expensive law school for those reasons, unless you have the means to do so without incurring big big debt. Don’t go to law school, in other words, to avoid making a decision about your life as an adult and what you want it to be like. Because if you incur big debt and make your peer group an extremely competitive and perhaps atypically unhappy group of people you will limit your ability to make that decision, clearly and well and for the right reasons.

One thing I have to consider is that for me going to law school will most definitely mean incuring debt. I don’t know if the debt incurred will be outweigh any possible increases in income afterward. It might if I go into public interest law, but then some school have tuition forgiveness programs and scholarships for those who dedicate themselves to public interest law for a certain number of years. If that’s a possibility in my case, it would mean not haveing debt to deal with, but it might also mean not making much more than I am currently.

Decisions, decisions.

Found via Falconred Goes to Law School.