<p>You can be very, very worse off after getting a JD. Very. </p>
<p>If you want to draft wills and open up your own practice, and do not care where you live, then go on a scholarship to a school in an area with a (relative) paucity of lawyers. </p>
<p>Do not pay $175,000, especially if you are already having trouble getting retail jobs. law school is not worth that money, unless HYS.</p>
<p>Any employer who will pay you enough to service that debt, even on pauper’s lifestyle, will ask about what you did between college and law school. </p>
<p>Sign up with a temp agency. They might find work that pays $10 an hour, but it will pay $10/hour for forty hours a week. See if you can grow into a job.</p>
<p>SallyAWP has good advice. Also, consider becoming an accountant or such - if you don’t work out well in retail but love numbers, details, etc, it may be due to your own personality type.</p>