They're Coming for You

An Ask E. Jean Classic

Dear E. Jean:

I'm twenty-nine, I just finished NYU law school and moved to California to take a tax program. l've invested a lot of time and money (more than $220,000) in pursuit of this degree, but I'm dispassionate about the idea of spending the rest of my life in a law firm.

Why? I don't like how attorneys view the world. I don't want to work around people who want to stab me in the back. I want to enjoy a job where integrity is more important than competition. And I want to have fun! I'm smart and motivated; but I'm feeling stupid, inadequate, lonely, scattered, and uncertain about why I'm headed where I'm headed. I'm more interested in fashion, films, and music than the Rule Against Perpetuities.

But here I am up to my ears in the country's hardest bar exam. What should I do? I've devoted all this time and money and still have doubts as to whether I should even be in the law. Please help!! —Stressed in the West

Stressed, My Schnitzel:

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