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13-12-2022 11:41 PM |
whenever i come here and see this thread so active im quite surprised how come people still slogging so hard aspiring to become lawyers. fretting over TC and workload and bar exams.
im one myself now inhouse and if i were one of you younger people, i wouldn't even bother. not worth it.
legal profession has definitely lost its lustre. i studied law in the early 2010s and that was really the height of its prestige. apart from med, most law students can strut around nus or smu campus feeling prestigious whenever you tell people ur from law. also very easy to xian girls saying tt you're a law student.
back then law starting salaries also highest amongst the GES so quite prestigious. but now other fields like CS have easily overtaken the average local firms' salaries and more importantly cost of living and property hv gone up tremendously. if you're stuck in a local firm as a newbie lawyer, you're literally looking at BTOs rather than dreaming of condos, even if your fiance is also a lawyer. Unless you manage to get an international firm gig.
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