Comments | ljusastjarnan: i am so confused

ljusastjarnan

i am so confused

May 30, 2014 09:14

i don't know what to do with my life. i don't want to be in ~130k of debt to study ridiculously hard and work ridiculously hard, but the other option is to be in aorund 60k of debt and the same--- even worse, from the current testimonials, it seems getting into law means helping big business get richer, and finding loopholes for them to exploit. ( Read more... )

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oloriel May 30 2014, 10:27:13 UTC

I have no clue what fields of study your two options entail (aside from law -- and there are other fields than corporate law or tax law, in which a lawyer might be able to help "normal" people with "normal" issues (property, or rent, or legal defense, or whatever you specialise in?)... but are those the only two? (And what exactly are they?) Any other interests you might turn into a living?

ljusastjarnan May 30 2014, 10:55:19 UTC

Ah yikes, yes, this post is a little bit out of context, and there were a lot of things leading up to it.

First of all, I'm currently studying the broadest degree you can possibly study; arts/science, I LOVE LOVE LOVE it, but job prospects aren't exactly rosy for physics or philosophy grads -- maths seems a lot more promising, but I'm not touching that, as that would only be a lucrative field if you combined it with economics. So my two choices were to continue to study law or medicine. Medicine would be another four years of study, in addition to my four years of undergraduate study, whereas for law, I would cut out the science portion of my degree, and so finish one year earlier, and obtain my JD in three years time, hopefully securing a clerkship or at least an internship somewhere. Trust me, I've been told about how saturated the market is for law. Which is an added level of stress -- if I were to study law, I'd have to do it at one of the best universities. I'm aiming for the university I currently attend, but competition is ( ... )

oloriel May 31 2014, 10:51:51 UTC

Seems your situation is a lot different from what it would be like here - job prospects aren't rosy for "arts" students, but "science" in any form is desperately looked for, including physics (or chemistry). I sympathise with being pushed to pursue a certain path that you absolutely don't care for, and I hope you find a way to avoid it! Are there any likely options to continue your studies aside from medicine, law, or teaching? I dunno, like journalism (general or in some specific field) or pharmacy or something? (Assuming these are things that interest you more. I have no clue! I just wish someone would have mentioned pharmacy to me, oh, 7 or 8 years ago, so here we go. >_>) Law seems to be a madly competetive field of studies everywhere - from what I heard from friends who studied law here, the nastiness doesn't start after secuidng a degree, but actually as soon as you step into university... >_ ( ... )

ljusastjarnan June 1 2014, 02:40:31 UTC

oh science is far too broad a term to encompass everything-- it's true that there are sciences that are very much in demand, for that's definitely not the case for pure maths or pure physics-- nor even pure chemistry. it's just that there are many careers within industry that needs these subjects as a foundation. most physics graduates do not work in physics, but rather find work in either engg or IT. ofc, with IT it's very very easy to find a job-- and i did do a couple of programming courses, but that's not really my thing; i don't want to make a career out of it ( ... )

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