“Sometimes we quit the wrong things at the wrong time. You can totally have all of those things and so much more, if you can make it through what Seth Godin calls, “The Dip”. You will want to increase your energy and feel more alive. You will want to make more time for exercise, you will want to eat healthier and drink less. January will come and so many of you will desperately want to change. It’s a big deal.īut do you know how she went from unhealthy and sedentary to doing 25 push ups from her toes? The woman I meet with once a week now has muscular arms, a toned body, healthier eating patterns, is an amazing example to her kids, has fit friends AND, she can do 25 push ups from her toes. I want to be an example to my kids”.įast forward 1 year and it’s December 2016. I want to be fit and healthy and I want to feel alive. So when I sat with her at a coffee shop and asked her how she wanted her life to change, this is what she said to me: “I want to be the person who calls a friend to go for a hike, or to exercise. She was the gal who people called up to go for a drink, which really left little time or motivation for exercise. She contacted me in January 2016 to inquire about training and to see if I could help her go down a completely different path than she had been on. She started off the year feeling lethargic and unhealthy. But this subreddit is a little too gunnery sometimes.Last year I wrote about about a client named Cocktail Cara. I don’t think that this situation ever applied to her.įor some people this is good advice.
#Well off. please dont quit. tv
I have one friend who loves the profession, and she’s locally famous as a TV legal commentator (had her first appearance on CNN today) but she’s absolutely exemplary, SCL at Columbia where she now also teaches part time. Except me, and it’s often been a struggle for me too. At about nine years out of school, literally none of the law school classmates I keep in touch with are still practicing. But for close to half of us, it turns out to be a mistake. True, for some people it’s worth overcoming it to push through and maybe get into a really rewarding career. We have a higher attrition rate than nearly any other licensed profession.īased on all of that, I don’t think “just stick with it” is the universally great advice you think it is. Look up the statistics for JDs five years out. Y'all are crazy, lol.ĭropping out during 1L with one semester worth of student loans is a hell of a lot better than struggling through three years of school, the most stressful exam invented, and then three or four years of the most stressful job you could imagine only to find yourself unable to continue in the profession with a giant pile of debt.
I wrote this as a break from work, lol.Įdit: Whoa someone down voted me. Please disregard typos and poorly worded sentences. I'm happy to help you any way I am able (work schedule permitting). If I can be of any help (besides reading your resume, getting you a job, and giving you outlines) please reach out. I was a first-generation college/law student. I hope you don't take for granted the seat you worked so hard to receive, you tough it out, and you persevere. At least give yourself the grace to get there. 1L is mostly about sitting around until you have an "ah ha!" moment. If some of you are not / have, please disregard two proceeding sentences (and don't write off everything I have to say). Many of you have not experienced substantial academic hardship (or hardship generally). So, please don't quit because you think your experience these first few weeks are indicators that you will not thrive in this profession. As such, grades, your ability to readily comprehend nuances of cases, or your ability to pull out rules from cases don't really have any bearing on your ability to practice. Although some of the law school skills (like issue spotting and research) have a place in most (but not all) legal work, the overwhelming majority of the things you do at a firm are not something you're instructed on during your time in law school. More importantly, practice is not at all like law school. it just takes some people longer to "get it" than others. Many of them viewed their inability to quickly grasp the topics we grappled with or their average first semester grades as a lack of their capabilities. I had many friends quit before the end of the first semester, and some that quit shortly after the first semester grades dropped. You are constantly met with failure and feelings of inadequacy. You've done nothing really to base it on that is similar. It is incredibly hard at first, and very challenging to grasp.
Law school is much like learning a second language (for the first time). I invite you to fight the urge and tough it out the first year. I've seen a decent amount of posts (presumably from 1Ls) that already want to quit law school.
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