He’s in for a nasty surprise if he thinks that law school is a good path to riches these days
My wife graduated magna cum laude and she was pulling down $120k eight years later. Admittedly, she was working 60-80 hour weeks to bring in that $120k.
The debt isn't the real problem with law school. Like, yeah, a small mortgage sucks. But it's manageable when you're earning three times what you made out of college. The real problem with law work is that the hours are totally unforgiving. You're effectively holding down two jobs.
I had a friend who did Big Law up in New York for about four years. He has a story about his boss coming in with a contract that needed to be finalized in three days. This was on a Friday. So he pivoted from his normal 7-7 schedule to literally sleeping under his desk that entire weekend. Put in 120 hours total that week, with half coming in the last three days. He delivers the contract bright and early Monday morning, but his boss pushes it back and says "They just called and said the deal was off." He walked out of there shortly afterwards. Not even NYC Big Law money was worth that shit to him.
My wife graduated magna cum laude and she was pulling down $120k eight years later. Admittedly, she was working 60-80 hour weeks to bring in that $120k.
The debt isn't the real problem with law school. Like, yeah, a small mortgage sucks. But it's manageable when you're earning three times what you made out of college. The real problem with law work is that the hours are totally unforgiving. You're effectively holding down two jobs.
I had a friend who did Big Law up in New York for about four years. He has a story about his boss coming in with a contract that needed to be finalized in three days. This was on a Friday. So he pivoted from his normal 7-7 schedule to literally sleeping under his desk that entire weekend. Put in 120 hours total that week, with half coming in the last three days. He delivers the contract bright and early Monday morning, but his boss pushes it back and says "They just called and said the deal was off." He walked out of there shortly afterwards. Not even NYC Big Law money was worth that shit to him.