Don’t Go to Law School — find out why
A fictitious dialog between a law school dean and a law school graduate. This video exposes the ugly truth about the reality of the legal job market and explains how we have been brainwashed into believing that higher education is the key to economic success. Discover why so many people feel compelled to pursue graduate and professional studies. Learn the truth about the ugly reality of the legal job market and why you probably shouldn’t go to law school. Visit my blog at: FlusterCucked.blogspot.com
@BrotherDaniel1 The other big issue is whether the overproduction of college graduates is good for our society. Is it beneficial when otherwise hard-working, ambitious young people get saddled with $150,000 of non-dischargeable debt without jobs to show for them? Even if everyone worked very very hard in law school, there are only so many jobs available. If you think about it, excess college education is impoverishing our society and hurts our economy. Restoring market forces would fix it.
@BrotherDaniel1 In that case, would you agree that market forces should be restored to higher education? Would you support allowing people to be able to declare bankruptcy for poor educational investments in the same way that people can declare bankruptcy for other types of investments (and even gambling debts)? This would force lenders and schools to make sure that their debtors are good investments. What’s funny is that in this case free market dogmatists often oppose free market forces.
@JoblessJane but youre forgetting that there are people with law degrees who never practice or even take the bar. you cant limit who deserves the right to attempt to get a legal education. thats unAmerican. whether or not people have realistic expectations of their opportunities with the degrees they obtain is another story. you cant hold institutions responsible for expecting to collect debt from naive people who chose this path for themselves. respect the game
@JoblessJane everyone i know who has entered the legal profession in the last five years and was near the top of their classes had jobs offered them before they had even graduated. of course they were at tier one schools and participated things like moot court and law revue. also they had internships during every summer they were at lawschool so their resume didnt say “medeocre brat with an english degree who didnt feel like hitting the job market while the economy sucks.”
I went to college so I could give democrats my money. I loved buying 300 dollar books. I loved repeating the same shit I was told to repeat by so old fucker who most of the time was phoning it in. Now I have a philosophy degree I could open up a Phillosophy store! Yaaaa!
this guys a sucker! tier 3 lawschool? that means bottom 50%-75%. and he probably didnt get any internships while he was in school. went out drinking instead. law school is a shark tank. you think half-assing your law education like you did your useless undergrad liberal arts degree will get you paid? you deserve the bottom rung! barely making it thru a crappy lawschool means youre a better lawyer then everyone who failed. but youre worse than everyone who didnt
@JoblessJane
If you can discharge private loans all it means is that you won’t get private loans. You can’t have your cake and eat it too. The only way to ‘fix’ this problem is to actually force the law profession to become like the medical profession where all possible surplus is weeded out during admissions. But then you’ll probably end up with a shortage like in the medical field which will impoverish the nation through high costs of medical care.
@GoodFella5000 Yes it ia.
@tothatextent
Such a powerful statement!
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maybe I should give up on the dream
Bwahahaha …. sorry crybabies who thought you’d jump into a $200,000 per year job because you want to law school. Yeah, get into it like the rest of us, open a practice, build it up, make a name for yourself, sweat it out the first few years … sorry crybabies, there’s no yellow brick road or easy life for you.
@BrotherDaniel1 Also, note that anecdotal stories abound about grads of T1 and T14 schools having difficulty obtaining employment in the legal profession, including those who finished in the top halves of their classes.
@BrotherDaniel1 One the points of the video is that such weak candidates shouldn’t even be able to gain admission to law school and that the production of JDs should more closely match the real-world demand, which it would if free market forces (such as bankruptcy for student loans) were resorted to legal education. My position is that 60-75% of the law schools need to close or at least that the number of law school seats needs to be reduced by 60-75%.
@Mobiusspore Is it possible that excellent, qualified, hard-working, worthy people could end up unemployed and/or underemployed-out-of-field if a large surplus of people are produced for that field? Are you open to the possibility that our education system may be economically wasteful in those regards? How does it benefit our society to produce more lawyers (or scientists) than the economy can gainfully employ? Would you support restoring market forces (student loan bankruptcy) to education?
If you went to collage you have a better chance of finding a job over seas then here in the US.
@dutytocareforothers
I don’t understand. Are you for me or against me?
@saintgauden The poseur tyrants are at the bottom of the caste system because the real tyrants are at the top destroying and devouring everything in sight.
@anythingnew Where exactly are people doing all this math and science at? Certainly not at Wal-Mart or Home Depot.
@Morrocanprincess That not what I call “connections” that’s what I call nepotism. If you are related to somebody in a position of power and influence and he or she hires you or helps you attain a job that is called nepotism. Most people are not that lucky.
lots of swears … i love it
@Mobiusspore Enabling people and colleges to engage in economically wasteful activities like excessive education impoverishes our nation. Ideally, graduate production should more closely match the real-world demand for grads, but our government has almost completely removed free market forces from the education business by making student loans non-dischargeable in bankruptcy. If part of the costs of bad educational investments were shifted to lenders and schools, this problem would vanish.
@Mobiusspore Many graduates of T1 schools have ended up unemployed or underemployed-out-of-field. The field is that heavily glutted. On my blog you can find articles where I used ABA and BLS data to calculate that fewer than 54% of all JDs are working in the legal profession and that probably fewer than 30% of new graduates today find entry-level jobs in it. If you pay attention to these issues, you can will even come across numerous anecdotal stories of T14 and T25 grads having difficulty.
@JoblessJane
Did these excellent, qualified, hard-working, worthy people graduate from a Tier 1 law school? If not, then the argument your video makes could be applied everywhere. I could argue nobody should bother getting a B.S or BA because the University of Phoenix exists. Having freedom implies the freedom to make an inferior choice like a low tier law school or med school in the Caribbean. If they did graduate Tier 1, I concede, but I have a strong hunch that’s not the case.
The only people who were brainwashed are the retards making these “Don’t become X” videos. There is no such thing as a job guarantee anywhere in life. *Finishing* high school doesn’t entitle you to college if you finished with a D average. *Finishing* law school doesn’t entitle you to a law job if you’re in the bottom quartile of lawyers. It is sad that some people learn this fact so late in life.