Hold the presses, everyone. It seems the cutting-edge, innovative newsmakers over at the Minnesota Daily have just broken a shocking story that is sure to shake the foundation of education to its core. Apparently, contrary to their general reputation as altruistic do-gooders, a majority of pre-law and pre-med students are in it for the money.
Who knew that students who are about to take on six-figure debt loads, sleep five hours a night for the rest of their lives, and spend much of their careers explaining patently obvious things to people who don't want to listen, and the rest of their career cleaning up the mess when those people don't listen, might, just might, expect hefty compensation in return?
Who knew that a guy might not want to work for the median salary when all he does all day is meticulously examine people's sweaty, unkempt bodies -- or worse, their deeds and tax returns?
In all seriousness, folks, I absolutely love the law. The problems are endlessly deep, the applications are real and often life-changing for others, and the atmosphere of law school is intellectually exhilarating on an incredible level.
But if I was going to get paid a peasant's salary to do what lawyers actually have to do, I'd have to buck up and get my mental thrills elsewhere. There's a huge and ever-growing class of people who get to sit around studying law, put in a quarter of the academic work law students do, put in a tenth of the career work lawyers do, have a much better-defined career ladder, and get to say whatever they want no matter how out of sync it is with actual law. They're called Political Science professors.
I mean this: if something happens where the kind of law I specialize in stops being lucrative, I will get my Master's and teach high school English and will just practice law pro bono as a community service. The retirement package and health benefits are a heck of a lot better anyway.
Have a nice day.
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