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Originally Posted by Karak
I enjoy it quite a bit. I'm not sure if I'd qualify as being "known" by you, but if so, literally ain't so appropriate.
And I know quite a few other people in law school who don't hate it either. I also know a lot of good attorneys who do great work for people and still pay off their debt easily. The LRAP program we have at Georgetown makes it very easy to go into public interest work, still earn your full salary and not have to worry about loans. Your criticisms, while certainly applicable to many people, seem largely uninformed, especially since you insist on generalizing and "literally" applying everything to all law students. I don't want to be that nit that jumps on you for speaking in absolutes, but many of your comments are grossly off base.
I mean, you don't qualify for these purposes. I'm talking about people in my relatively immediate group of IRL friends, which is of course a small sample size. I assume not everyone hates it, or people wouldn't keep going. But of those people, they all complained about the workload (both its volume and nature) and the ones who are working now work a minimum of 60 hours a week, usually more. I mean I have a friend who comes home at 9 or 10 on weekdays and usually goes in weekends-- including Sunday. And they tell other people these things, and they keep going anyway. I have a friend finishing up 1L now and talking about how much she hates the workload-- things she knew going into it, and frankly I don't even think she's that interested in being a lawyer.
I'm sure it's for some people, I just really want to see my friends stop spending so much time doing something they hate.