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Drop out and live under a bridge if you never have ya PMC wanker
BGJ got to work with bernie cause she did corporate law and set herself up.
Help nesly fuck with yum brands. You hands will be clean and your pockets will be full. Work for five years and buy a villa and retire to cuba. Take some of us with you.
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If he is doing corporate law. There is a good chance he can just be doing well paid soloiststic contract work between two large corporations. In that case he is doing no evil he is just sorting papers and being well paid for it.
[be a lawyer in order to] Help [Nestle] fuck with Yum brands [the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut]
I'm leaning towards a Labour degree. Law is awful, placement rates are low, and the work is hell. It does have some of the advantages you mention and in the US is probably better for politics since you don't have a Succdem party. But you'll do a lot of amazing low level work with the labor studies degree, especially when most graduates only do union work as a stepping stone to anti-worker corporate positions.
I'd point out, at least here in Aus, a Labour studies degree isn't a bad thing for advocacy. It'll get you a spot at the Left faction or the Labor Party or the Green's table easily if entryism is your thing. A number of our best Labour Prime Ministers have come from union work.
But ultimately, both are good choices, do what you enjoy the most and what fits your skills best. The revolution isn't supposed to make you unhappily sacrifice.
Be like me, go to the countryside, get a union job. Also, does the AFL-CIO Organizing Institute still exist? They'll get you on track to be involved in an organizing campaign from the rank and file level.
I was able to go to the organizing institute based on student activist experience, but I also had some union organizers I had worked with vouching for me. I also don't even know if it even exists anymore.
Unfortunately, I don't know so much about getting into this world via the pmc route.
I should also say I never became a full-time organizer. I decided I wasn't good enough. I actually need to work alongside people for a long time to develop relationships. I don't have the charisma to automatically lead.
The labor studies MA would be way more fun, but way less transferable. It sounds like a tough choice.
I think you can have more impact with a law degree. Until/unless the revolution succeeds, many ordinary people's battles will be fought in the legal system. You can do a lot of good for people with the training a law degree gives you, whether that is in labour law, as a public defender, or anything else.
I hear what you're saying though about law school being hard and very expensive - ultimately that's a decision you'll have to make for yourself. I'm lucky enough to live somewhere with interest free student loans so I can't really speak to that side of things.
Law degrees are worthless unless you go to an Ivy and intern with a big firm or clerk for a federal judge, imoho.
Would you make more important connections (comrades) in Labor Studies?
