<p>Note I am not necessarily advocating that OP ends up at a law school. What I am implying is that typical career options available for a large percentage of grads with liberal arts degrees are horrendous, and law school, if one can get into the right school and ends up with the right grades, is likely to be the least crappy choice out of available choice sets that OP faces. For one thing, I think attending a T-14 law school is heck a lot better of a career choice than pursuing a PhD in psychology, even at Harvard. We know that job market for law grads has shrunk. On the other hand, the job market for academia in humanities is basically non-existent.</p>
<p>Also, let’s not forget. The vast majority of people in the workforce don’t necessarily love their jobs. Most people work jobs to bring food on their table and put roof over their head. According to U.S. Bureau of Labor, there are 18 million college grads in the U.S. who work in retail jobs, that don’t require a college degree. Do you think that these 18 million people work their jobs because they genuinely enjoy their work? If you were born just a hundred years ago, the chances were overwhelming that you’d become a farmer by default. Yet, how many men in the history of mankind wept themselves to sleep because they couldn’t follow their “passion” in their “career”? I hang on to the belief that practicality trumps fit or “passion” or whatever you may want to call it.</p>