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Demo, I don’t disagree with you at all, but my memory of being a 0L, and of seeing other 0Ls, is that they have always been successful all their lives where others have failed. It’s really hard to explain that getting a fulfilling lobbying job is akin to being in the starting line-up in the World Series - that it functionally cannot be compared to “I did really well in high school and got good grades in college” success.</p>
<p>The reality of any client-service job is that you are paid to do what the client wants done, not to make yourself happy and fulfilled and to save the world. I also enjoy pointing out, in real life as well as online, that most do-gooder jobs pay darn near nothing because every cent that goes towards salary is not going towards helping the people that the charity is designed to help.</p>
<p>This is also true in politics: the pay is generally terrible (with few exceptions) because clients, i.e. donors and the candidate, would rather send out a mailing to ten thousand people than give you a bonus on your paycheck.</p>