bradofshaw
Puritan Board Freshman
No, I'm not in need of legal counsel. I'm actually looking for career advice. One of my professors from college was ardently urging me to pursue law school. He said that it would add a dimention to ministry that is desperately needed in the world today.
Thing is, neither have I ever had any desire to become an attorney, nor have I ever thought that I would enjoy law school. To make things stickier, I currently am working as a paralegal in a large corporate defense firm, and am trying desperately to get out of the legal profession and in to something that I feel I would enjoy more. However, the job I do now has very little to do with the legal profession (I push papers all day), I just happen to be doing it in a law firm rather than say an insurance company or a bank.
My main interests are philosophy, theology, and history. I have this kind of stated career goal of becoming a teacher. This professor seems to think I could be of so much more use to the Kingdom as an attorney. I've been strongly considering seminary study, and he seems to think it would be good to do both. I do not consider myself called to the pastorate (and neither does my professor).
Just wondering if there was anyone who has gone through law school. What is it like, and what are the various things one might do with a law degree?
[Edited on 1-6-2006 by bradofshaw]
Thing is, neither have I ever had any desire to become an attorney, nor have I ever thought that I would enjoy law school. To make things stickier, I currently am working as a paralegal in a large corporate defense firm, and am trying desperately to get out of the legal profession and in to something that I feel I would enjoy more. However, the job I do now has very little to do with the legal profession (I push papers all day), I just happen to be doing it in a law firm rather than say an insurance company or a bank.
My main interests are philosophy, theology, and history. I have this kind of stated career goal of becoming a teacher. This professor seems to think I could be of so much more use to the Kingdom as an attorney. I've been strongly considering seminary study, and he seems to think it would be good to do both. I do not consider myself called to the pastorate (and neither does my professor).
Just wondering if there was anyone who has gone through law school. What is it like, and what are the various things one might do with a law degree?
[Edited on 1-6-2006 by bradofshaw]