<p>floridadad55 it seems that there is a vast over supply of everything right now. There is high unemployment in every area. The legal market is in terrible shape, but you will also find many doctors advising students not to go to med school these days. Terrible hours, high debt, high malpractice insurance and ever decreasing reimbursement from the insurance carriers. Oh, and the finance jobs? It seems wall street has taken a big hit lately too, better not head into that field either. It seems that these kids are in a bad time for getting any job and there are no guarantees in any field. Everyone says only study STEM. STEM is the only valuable education. Well guess what? in 5 years when every kid coming out of school has a STEM degree there will be way too many of them and not enough jobs to go around.</p>
<p>I think these kids have to decide what they will be good at and what they want to do and be careful not to go into crazy debt trying to do it. If everybody just follows the latest craze of where the “good jobs” will be, there will be too many people vying for those jobs and the same problem will exist there.</p>
<p>I agree with you that law school is not something to do because you don’t know what else you should do with your current degree, and especially going 200k into debt to get there. But I think if it something they really want to do and go in knowing there is not guarantee of a high paying job at the end they have the finances worked out, then they have a shot at being successful.</p>