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Old 15-03-2022, 02:28 PM
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Oh man I regret not choosing comp science as my degree - law was a mistake
Don't be fooled by minute differences in starting pay. Law has a much higher earning potential in the medium to long term.

s://data.gov.sg/dataset/monthly-basic-and-gross-wages-of-common-occupations-in-all-industries?resource_id=dc067048-ece3-4b35-b445-296bb74d32c5

Of course, if you are not cut out for law in the first place, then you might not even survive, so you should choose your degree based on interest/aptitude and not simplistic comparisons of starting pay.

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Don't be fooled by minute differences in starting pay. Law has a much higher earning potential in the medium to long term.

s://data.gov.sg/dataset/monthly-basic-and-gross-wages-of-common-occupations-in-all-industries?resource_id=dc067048-ece3-4b35-b445-296bb74d32c5

Of course, if you are not cut out for law in the first place, then you might not even survive, so you should choose your degree based on interest/aptitude and not simplistic comparisons of starting pay.
What u say is still true now. The median outcomes for law 5 years in, is better than the median outcomes for SWEs.

Means, you can be a rather mediocre lawyer slogging in midtier and still earn a good wage (compared to other white collar professionals). If you're a rather mediocre SWE, you'll be slogging in a midtier role in some non-FAANG place like NCS where pay and trajectory is bleak.

The caveat is that as everything is increasingly tech driven, basically coders will become as important as language. But I believe this development will only fully ripen for the next generation.

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FCH grad, but from delisted UK School. Practising about 1.5 years now. I am thinking of moving into academia (in the UK), possibly doing masters at somewhere better.

Practice kinda sucks. Any seniors on this forum done PHD or did a non law masters?

If not academia, was thinking of doing business/commerce related.

Anyone did masters down that route?

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is it possible to fail probation as an Assoc
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thoughts on kennedy’s liti arm? culture, pay etc
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FCH grad, but from delisted UK School. Practising about 1.5 years now. I am thinking of moving into academia (in the UK), possibly doing masters at somewhere better.

Practice kinda sucks. Any seniors on this forum done PHD or did a non law masters?

If not academia, was thinking of doing business/commerce related.

Anyone did masters down that route?
Apply to Harvard LLM then go be a Sheridan fellow
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Apply to Harvard LLM then go be a Sheridan fellow
Your LLM needs to be from Harvard or Oxford or Cambridge if you intend to be a legal academic at any of the law schools in Sg.
If you are just using your LLM to do NY bar or get a US/UK job, LSE/UCL, Columbia, NYU all those are fine.
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law or cs?
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law or cs?
if i can turn back time, i would do cs. Don need to be a lawyer from the same cookie cutter manufactured from B4. Do rmb that these dinosaurs in B4 don't go extinct that fast. But for CS, once u are out of touch w current advancement, you are OUT.
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is it possible to fail probation as an Assoc
Yes esp if you are in a toxic dept
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