Secondary BS/BA vs. Graduate School

Ooh.

Yeah, so I graduated with a BS in Computer Science but couldn't find a job (I was pretty much stuck in Tucson, which has a shitty job market). I eventually did find a job, but 4 years after I left school, I decided I really, really hated programming for a living. Like it was interesting to learn, but I hated doing it as a job. Not only that, but with a CS degree, you can't do anything else with it but program.

I found a couple of friends of mine going for law degrees, and the more I researched it, the better it sounded. For one, you can get almost any job you want with a law degree. I mean, other than being a doctor, there isn't much else a JD won't open doors for. And you don't even have to know what you'd want to do when you're done. They don't care what major you come from (I go to school with English majors, psych majors, CS, Poly Sci, business, biology, etc., etc.).

It's extremely challenging, it's almost a competition. And depending on the school you choose (like mine, where incoming classes are only 150) you really, really get to know some of your professors.

You have to be ready to work and interested in the process, but I recommend law school to anyone who is even remotely considering it. The last semester has been one of the most fulfilling 4-month periods of my entire life.

Regarding debt: law school is only 3 years long, and while you usually find yourself in a massive amount of debt (I go to an "affordable" school and will be in debt almost $100k), you make so much when you graduate that its easy to pay it off as long as you don't go into some extremely low paying "good" work (e.g., environmental) or the lowest government work (city claims court).

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