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Originally Posted by aznlangjai
my calcualtion of 8.5 includes the 7 years required to complete law degree. correct me if i am wrong, but law requires 3 years of law school and 4 years of pratical or something like that?
i agree with you, maybe being good at debating isn't what law is about. my reason to become a lawyer was too vague. may be i'll become a prosecutor. maybe this maybe that. your plan is great, but like you said, "if you're in my situation". if you're in my situation, you would not be able to take your GED yet and go to law school because you would be financially unstable (3 year car lease, saving enough to buy out car) and time would be what you're battling against working this 11 hour/day job for 6 days a week.
i wake up at 5:15pm to get to my work at 6pm, work until 5:30am.
get home at about 6am, shower and stuff to about 6:45am.
wake up at 10:30am to go to school for 2 hour class (1 course) until 1:00.
get home at 1:30pm, sleep at about 2pm, wake up again at 5:15pm.
so tell me how would you make money on the side and finish your GED, law school, etc etc. in 3 years.
im thankful that my dad pays for the rent, but everything else i pay for myself.
anyways, i would like to thank everyone for their input in the direction i am going with my career but the main topic of this thread is to assure me that this job is decent with school on the side, not if my career plan is right or wrong. i guess prioritizing my direction in my career was what i was looking for. and right now, making money with school on the side for the next 3 - 4 years is what i plan to do. i should be done my diploma in 1.5 years, then when my car is paid off and bought out, i should still have a decent amount of money to go to college/university full time while working a part time job.
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Are you stupid or do you just lack the ability to do research?
1) If you're really so hard up for cash,
GET RID OF YOUR CAR. If you absolutely insist on having a car, get rid of the expensive lease and find a cheap reliable beater. You'll save on insurance, car payments and likely gas.
2) If your job is preventing you from pursuing your law school dreams, then get another job. If you find a job(s) paying $8/hr requiring you to work 8 hrs a day for 360 days a year, that's 17,272 take home after taxes or $1400 a month. If you can't live off $1400 a month living rent free, then you are doing something seriously wrong.
3) Here's an LSAT question for you... all prosecutors are lawyers and not all lawyers are prosecutors. What do you need to become to be a prosecutor?
4) If I was in your situation, why wouldn't i be able to take my GED? It's just a test you study for. Buy a book and study that instead of wasting 2 hrs a day in class. You save money too.
5) Law school doesn't require 4 years of school. Again, do some research. Afraid you can't afford law school? Student loans and work during the summers.
But hey, I obviously don't know what I'm talking about because your situation is soooooooooo special so why don't you keep doing things inefficiently and waste years of your life away mismanaging your money and working at a dead-end job to struggle paying for car you obviously can't afford. I mean, if you take 8.5 years instead of 3, it's soooo much more worth it in the end eh?
To answer your original question, based on what I've seen on how you react to people posting in this thread, you're never going to reach your goals in life. I challenge you to prove me wrong.