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Originally Posted by Minnesota_Flyer  That's like saying all pilots make $200,000 and work 10 days a month. Yes, the starting salary for new associates at most top tier firms in large cities is now north of $120,000. But no one is getting those jobs right out of a fourth tier law school unless they are at the tippy top of their class or they know someone (or more likely both). Most of those jobs are going to former judicial law clerks and top 10% students out of top 20 law schools.
The majority of law school graduates are earning well below $100,000, and apparently 25% or so never work as lawyers.
Besides, being a big-firm associate BLOWS. |
That might be true, but in ending my second year of flying professionally I'm home 8 days a month and make $19,000 a year.
Find me a lawyer, doctor or any other professional that puts 2 years into their career after finishing training that is in that situation. I'm talking about out of law school and into the world. We make excuses for it as being ok by saying we're paying our dues or some BS like that, but the truth is that it's unacceptable, but we find that it's ok beacuse we're "living a childhood dream."
I dig my job a lot, but I'm not gonna sugercoat it either! There's not much else I want to do, but it ain't all roses!
(I don't mean to sound too negative, but I'm sitting in Lubbock, TX on a 23 overnight and don't have much else to do
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