why you SHOULD GO TO LAW SCHOOL!!!!!!!!

REACTION TO “WHY YOU SHOULDN’T GO TO LAW SCHOOL”

This article by Paul Gowder was probably written to warn young students as I about the dangers of attending law school. At least that’s the view he wants his readers to think, but I sense a strong tone of animosity for someone who failed his dream of becoming a lawyer and was completely appalled on what law school is really about.
Not only did it seem like this article was written by a pissed off 12 year old kid who wanted to list a lot of excuses about something, but it was rather insulting to me as a reader for someone claiming they had all this experience they went through and speculate about how bad something might be for me. Maybe I like working long hours, reading stacks of paper, and playing psychological warfare games with my colleagues, as long as I get paid. You think this is the only profession people have difficulty in? What world are you living in? Sure, it’s a damn hard profession, and you have to work your ass off and come in top of your class, as you must do for any profession. Of course there will be risks, and debt, and maybe failure, but that’s the god damn name of the game; to challenge yourself. Gowder challenged himself, but obviously failed, which I guess I can feel bad about, but complaining and listing a bunch of reasons of why a particular profession is not worthy of trying is absolutely ludicrous and is just an entire excuse for Gowder’s failures. How juvenile is it go so out of your way to try to prove to people that this is a bad profession that you start listing divorce, suicide, and drug-use rates targeting lawyers?! I mean, is this how desperate this guy is to tell people how pissed off he is? I understand that he is trying to warn young students on double checking their decisions, but this is just straight out his own experience which Paul believes should apply to every student who aspires to go to law school. Look, most students who seriously have been considering going to law school are bright kids. They know the world is extremely competitive and it’s a very demanding career, but that doesn’t mean students should just give up just because it’s challenging. And I don’t know why, but it seems that Paul thinks that a career in law is the only hard and unworthy career. I can go on and on, typing pages and pages on negative views of almost any career, and most of them are just as challenging and demanding as a career in law, if not more.
So Mr. Paul Gowder, I say to you that after reading your article, you have in fact inspired me even more on becoming a (according to you because everything according to you MUST BE FACTUAL BECAUSE YOU SAID IT) slime ball, immoral, jerk, arrogant, petty, uninteresting, impatient, unhappy, divorced, druggie, alcoholic do-gooder corporate lawyer. And when I DO become a successful corporate lawyer, I will have done so without all those characteristics you mentioned, because it is possible to do just that, and I will be a living example of it, which will make you cringe to your stomach and may inspire you to write another stupid and ignorant article. But I will thank you anyway for trying to help me become a better student or even a better person, but I think I’ll pass and instead reach for the stars and achieve my dreams. Maybe one day I could give you some insight on how one can do that. One day.