Is a career law a good option for me?

[stein74]

I have been thinking about a legal career for sometime. It is not just the money, but I have thought about utilizing what skill sets I feel I have. I got into engineering, and am almost finished with my mechanical degree, 1 semester to go, and feel it is not for me.

My grades are honors quality, but I feel I am not very good at calculations, and furthermore couldn't see myself in a technical field. I have found that writing and speaking are something that comes naturally to me. All courses about writing I am able to get nearly 100 on the papers, even in upper level courses. Engineering courses about calculation are either hit or miss with me. Sometimes I do exceptionally well in the course, other times I feel like I haven't learned anything and my score is curved up to an A because nobody did well, or finally sometimes I just do average in a course.

I have also gotten to a point where my courses are not interesting at all to me. I feel when I am in a sociology, history, or humanities course it is much more interesting to me, and I feel that might correlate to having a liking for law.

For you past lawyers how is it financially for you? Is it a tough road in competition with other attorneys? If I go into law, I am not yet decided on the type of law, but am considering criminal, labor, patent, corporate law, and construction law.

[aingeni]

its good as long as you won't be a blood sucking parasite that takes advantages of all the legal loopholes, and who prides himself on being able to manipulate the english language to win.

if you are going to be a lawyer to fight for whats right and wrong, whats ethical, to play by the rules and not manipulate them, then go for it.

if you want to be a lawyer to win your case whether its getting a killer off the hook and suck as much money out of our economy as you can, then i would reconsider.....maybe a teacher?