Law School for the Midlife Crisis
I used to laugh when professionals I knew took a break in their careers to attend law school. Doctors, university professors, engineers, I never understood the attraction. Now here I am, 43 years old and doing nicely in my chosen profession of publishing, and it's not keeping my brain busy enough. I think they call this a midlife crisis. Sure, I can worry about business 24/7, but that's not the same as learning something new. I've been studying languages the last 15 years, started with Hebrew and moved to Russian a couple years ago. Unfortunately, I never had a good memory for vocabulary, much less the rules of grammar (which I'd really prefer to spell grammer), and I don't have a professional need to speak anything other than English.
Studying in a structured environment offers a somewhat constructive way to spend one's time, so I broke my promise to myself that I'd never consider going back to school, and started looking at the options. I don't want to teach, much less hang around with a bunch of whacko academics, so that pretty much rules out the Humanities. I already have a Master's in Electrical Engineering (what a mistake that was:-), and I don't have the head to become a scientist, so PhD studies in the hard sciences is out. No profession attracts me less than Medicine, I avoid medical leaches like the plague, so studying the subject is contraindicated. Nor am I interested in becoming a pastor, I'm more likely to tell somebody to go to hell than strive for their soul.
So I'm left with Law School, despite a life-long disgust with litigation. Maybe one of the reasons I'm able to consider Law School at this point is that I'm involved in litigation for the first time in my life, my lawyer having recently filed a copyright infringement claim on my behalf in federal Court. It turns out that in the business world, lawyers are the enforcement mechanism, there are no copyright or contract police you can turn to when somebody rips you off.
I'm hardly settled on the idea of law school, much less becoming a lawyer, but I bought an LSAT preparation book and I'm going to start looking at what's involved with applying to law school. My main ambition for this blog is to find out just how interested in the law I am by forcing myself to write about it. Stay tuned...
Studying in a structured environment offers a somewhat constructive way to spend one's time, so I broke my promise to myself that I'd never consider going back to school, and started looking at the options. I don't want to teach, much less hang around with a bunch of whacko academics, so that pretty much rules out the Humanities. I already have a Master's in Electrical Engineering (what a mistake that was:-), and I don't have the head to become a scientist, so PhD studies in the hard sciences is out. No profession attracts me less than Medicine, I avoid medical leaches like the plague, so studying the subject is contraindicated. Nor am I interested in becoming a pastor, I'm more likely to tell somebody to go to hell than strive for their soul.
So I'm left with Law School, despite a life-long disgust with litigation. Maybe one of the reasons I'm able to consider Law School at this point is that I'm involved in litigation for the first time in my life, my lawyer having recently filed a copyright infringement claim on my behalf in federal Court. It turns out that in the business world, lawyers are the enforcement mechanism, there are no copyright or contract police you can turn to when somebody rips you off.
I'm hardly settled on the idea of law school, much less becoming a lawyer, but I bought an LSAT preparation book and I'm going to start looking at what's involved with applying to law school. My main ambition for this blog is to find out just how interested in the law I am by forcing myself to write about it. Stay tuned...
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