Random Babble
Truthfully, I don’t really have much to say today. I’ve finally caught up on my blawg-reading, and the only thing I managed to remember from it all is that becoming a law professor is incredibly difficult (most of the discussion on this either happened, or is linked to, on The Volokh Conspiracy here).
I’ll admit that when people ask me what my dream job would be, I say, “law professor,” but that’s mostly because I just need to give them some sort of answer. A reply of “Supreme Court Justice” will just get me laughed at, and “lawyer” doesn’t satisfy people without an adjective in front (an adjective other than “rich,” I mean), but I don’t know enough about which areas of law I will enjoy to be able to put one there. Legal academia is specific enough that it satisfies people, but vague enough that I don’t have to commit to an area of law.
Admittedly, it does sound like an enjoyable job, but only in a vague, “I don’t really know much about what law professors do, but I think it would be fun to research things and write about them and teach people about law” kinda way. It’s probably not what I’ll end up doing. Hell, it’s probably not even what I’ll want to do once I get a better grasp of my options.
Accordingly, I’m not going to base my school decision on the number of law professors each one puts out. So I guess all that reading wasn’t really very helpful after all. Hmm.
March 17th, 2005 at 2:17 pm
You don’t need to be honest, I say make something up when you’re asked what you want to do. Who cares really, it’s not like you’ll be held to it. If someone asks me what kind of law I want to practice and I answer with something like “I want to be a prisoners’ advocate” I’d get laughed at. So now I just lie and say that I’m interested in wrapping the corporate world around my little finger. Or maybe I’ll just tell people that I’m just going to kill time in law school until it’s time for me to move on to med school and become a neurosurgeon. Get creative!
April 19th, 2005 at 2:35 pm
tramadol
By recognizing a favorable opinion of yourself, and taking pleasure in it, you in a measure give yourself and your peace of mind into the keeping of another, of whose attitude you can never be certain
August 27th, 2005 at 11:02 pm
diamonds
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