Tuesday, November 01, 2005
Brother Can You Spare a Job?
Today the first year class has its initial meeting with the Office of Career Services. This is where we are officially informed of what most of us already know but are too polite to admit out loud: for the upper 10% of the class, top NYC law firms will be banging down your doors with offers of six-figure starting salaries, full reimbursement of bar review courses, and annual bonuses .
The remaining 90% of us will face a starker reality: either go out there and scrap for jobs at small and midsize firms along with the other 15,000 law school graduates churned out by NY area schools each year, or take a rewarding "public interest" position with a city agency (read: defend indigent drug dealers, rapists and pedophiles) for the princely salary of $34,000 a year. On that income, we'll be assured, you'll comfortably finish paying off your student loans by, oh say, ... NEVER. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
The remaining 90% of us will face a starker reality: either go out there and scrap for jobs at small and midsize firms along with the other 15,000 law school graduates churned out by NY area schools each year, or take a rewarding "public interest" position with a city agency (read: defend indigent drug dealers, rapists and pedophiles) for the princely salary of $34,000 a year. On that income, we'll be assured, you'll comfortably finish paying off your student loans by, oh say, ... NEVER. BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
# posted by goldstar @ 10:39 AM 
