anonlaw123

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   by anonlaw123 14y ago

   I try and keep perspective that there's way, way worse things than having over 200k debt and making 40k a year while working and living in a modern, Western, industrialized country. I think the 40k number is worth emphasizing though, not as
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   by anonlaw123 14y ago

   What's really funny is if i'd just worked any random job -- food service, shelf-stocker -- instead of getting all this "elite" education, my financial situation would be way better than it is now right now. And if I, say, decided I wanted t
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   by anonlaw123 14y ago

   The legal work I've seen in Asia tends to 1) involve getting a big firm job and then you can perhaps rotate into their Asia office, and 2) tends to want you have some language fluency. I'd love to go to Asia, and I'm footloose and fancy fre
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   by anonlaw123 14y ago

   Indeed. I did the traditional path -- Ivy League undergrad, Top 10 law school -- with the expectation of the traditional big firm job outcome. Got shut out from the big firm jobs due to a below median 1L year performance (I put in lots of e