An old one I stumbled across in my archives from Scheherazade, who says "We in the legal profession don't treat our young very well. We lie to them systematically."
Lies such as ...
We tell them "you can do anything you want with a legal degree. It opens so many doors."
. . .
We don't talk to them, seriously, about what it means to one's life and one's choices to take on a hundred thousand dollars of non-dischargeable student loan debt. Does a law degree really "open so many doors" to someone if they will never again be free to earn less than $50,000 a year, if servicing their debt burden means that they'll have to choose between buying a house and having a kid?
As many of you know, I'm in my third year of four in Fordham's evening program. I'm fortunate in that my employer reimburses me for my tuition, which means that I should (in theory) have a lot less than hundred thousand dollars of debt.
My original motivation for going to law school, however, was not to be the traditional lawyer.