Becoming a lawyer is different than let's say becoming a doctor. The lawyers I know barely make a living. The profession is not the ticket to "the good life",

Becoming a lawyer is different than let's say becoming a doctor. The lawyers I know barely make a living. The profession is not the ticket to "the good life", like it was in the 50's. I don't know what school he graduated from. Why he ended up as a criminal attorney? How good/ethical of an attorney he was? (I throw in ethical because it's not judged by the typical client, like I feel it should? Maybe, their really isn't a good way to judge a person ethics?) Anyway, he made a life change. He can always go back to law, so in reality it's not that heroic of an act. He still has his degree, and passed the bar in his state. He definetly has a fallback. A fallback most of us don't have? It's very common to lawyers to pass the bar, and never practice law.