In terms of what a career in law is like: in almost all practice areas, your life will be dictated by hard deadlines—deadlines that, if missed, would lead to bar complaints and genuine malpractice lawsuits. You also typically are dealing with people in the worst moments of their lives.
level 1. · 5 yr. ago. Law students and lawyers bitch endlessly, and love to exaggerate how miserable their work schedules are. It's a habit that begins in law school and doesn't really go away. level 2. [deleted] · 5 yr. ago. I've already noticed it in law school. People don't work nearly as hard as they claim to.
I know a lot of lawyers who don't even like it. If you think you might want to be a lawyer, get good grades in high school, practice the SAT until you can get a great score so you can get into a good college, major in whatever you like (though if you want to do patent law you'll need to have a STEM degree), get good grades in college, then ...
1.) While the theory of the law, the stuff you’ll learn from text books in law school is fascinating, the practice of law is often boring, tedious and unexciting. 2.) In the practice of law, you’ll necessarily have to do things at odds when your personal set of values. Defend someone you think is liable. Sue someone you think isn’t.
ER nurses have very stressful jobs. Americans that own small businesses can spend 12 hours a day running their business. Engineers took the hardest classes to become engineers and im sure their job is challenging. I have a cousin that owns a daycare. She makes a lot of money as it is in an affluent area.
You cannot catch fish without bait in the water. You cannot get a job if you don't apply. Yes, firms say they want the top X%. My buddy, very much not in that top X%, is working his dream job because he applied and whoever was reviewing his resume went to the same undergrad.