Lawyer Salary

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I have finally graduated from local uni
Looking back, i feel that i pick the wrong major to read.

My peers are as usual gunning for the bar exams.
Honestly, i dont feel motivatied to do so.
Furthermore, the training period has lengthen, aint it.

What are my options if i dont follow usual route.

Many thanks.

another post by a non-law student using engineering level sentencing and grammar. What's up with the influx of non-lawyers in this thread. Makes me question the authenticity of the content in this forum. The training period is still 6 months for those graduating this year

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Also, to all the whining posters complaining that UK salary is higher than SG - other than the arguments made in the post above (in the earlier page), the reality is that the majority of people who get TCs in the UK usually have to paralegal for like 1.5-2/3 years before they secure their TC. And even then, it takes an additional 3 years for them to get qualified (1 year SQE, 2 years TC). The people who get straight TCs off penultimate year in uni are really exceptional cases in the grand scheme (and even then they take 3 years to qualify).

So, the grass is not always greener.

Agreed, and to add - a $7k NQ salary (assuming you live with at home) is more or less the same take-home as a London MC NQ on £125k gross after he/she pays 40% tax and rent, and before considering the generally higher COL in the UK. And as you said, in SG the qualification process is much shorter so you'll get to that level of earning faster than someone in the UK.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I have finally graduated from local uni
Looking back, i feel that i pick the wrong major to read.

My peers are as usual gunning for the bar exams.
Honestly, i dont feel motivatied to do so.
Furthermore, the training period has lengthen, aint it.

What are my options if i dont follow usual route.

Many thanks.

Bro your English ah…

Originally Posted by Unregistered

People want to become lawyers because, assuming you are smart enough to get into a decent law school and get above average grades, this is the surest way into the upper middle-class. How many other jobs in Singapore have a starting salary of $7k+ (after call) which has the potential to rise to $17k+ within 8 years (just looking at B4 salaries, ignoring international firms)?

The one extra year of training is nothing compared to the much lengthier training period that other professionals like doctors have to go through. The stress and hours that lawyers face are also no different to other highly-paid white collar jobs like bankers and consultants.

DENTISTRY. Starting pay is around $7000/month as well for a fresh IMG dentistry graduate working at a major chain like Q&M. No service bond to the government is required if you studied abroad in a recognised dental school.

Downside is the higher cost of school fees and the lengthier duration of study.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

another post by a non-law student using engineering level sentencing and grammar. What's up with the influx of non-lawyers in this thread. Makes me question the authenticity of the content in this forum. The training period is still 6 months for those graduating this year

This is the internet, lol.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

DENTISTRY. Starting pay is around $7000/month as well for a fresh IMG dentistry graduate working at a major chain like Q&M. No service bond to the government is required if you studied abroad in a recognised dental school.

Downside is the higher cost of school fees and the lengthier duration of study.

It’s even harder to get into dentistry than law. Law also doesn’t specifically require certain subjects to be studied (barring GP).

So, that’s the other thing that law as a degree has going for it - lowest common denominator.

There are some that deliberately write in what someone here described as "engineer level English" as an attempt to obfuscate their identity. I do that for things like internal company surveys that are anonymised, so that there's no chance that I might be identified from my writing style.

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So it mean they are not necessarily non-law people ok. No one said to be lawyer you cannot be allow to write using this manner.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

There are some that deliberately write in what someone here described as "engineer level English" as an attempt to obfuscate their identity. I do that for things like internal company surveys that are anonymised, so that there's no chance that I might be identified from my writing style.

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So it mean they are not necessarily non-law people ok. No one said to be lawyer you cannot be allow to write using this manner.

Bro how long you took to craft that first para? Rest well

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Bro how long you took to craft that first para? Rest well

Chill bros, don't fight over my english. Peace out ya.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

DENTISTRY. Starting pay is around $7000/month as well for a fresh IMG dentistry graduate working at a major chain like Q&M. No service bond to the government is required if you studied abroad in a recognised dental school.

Downside is the higher cost of school fees and the lengthier duration of study.

You are deliberately ignoring the hefty cost of privately funding a recognised BDS, for which there are next to no scholarships if one doesn't take the MOHH bond.

If an OSU law degree is already exclusivist by nature of the high school and COL fees, an overseas dental degree is arguably even more exclusive and out of the reach for a majority of middle class background kids. Only upper middle class and above need apply, and these kids never needed the money in the first place with their family safety net.