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Mike Cernovich Podcast

Do not go to law school, do this instead....

Mike Cernovich Podcast

Mike Cernovich Podcast

Business

4.8943 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Law school is viewed as a safe choice for ambitious people. Going to law school is actually the biggest risk a person could ever take. Is it worth it?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Do not go to law school. You're going to go anyway and ignore this, but it's my

0:04.4

karmic duty to tell you. Welcome back. This is my discernrich at rockfin Rokfin.com and I'm here to tell you

0:11.7

why you should not go to law school even though I know you will

0:15.7

Let's think of it this way hello young man or young woman I have a proposal for you

0:21.2

For the next three years you will work for me.

0:24.6

I will need you to work between 1500 and 2,000 hours and for the privilege of working for me,

0:30.7

you will pay me between 50 and $100,000 a year. At the end of this

0:35.4

30-year period I'm going to give you a lengthy examination. If you pass that

0:39.4

examination I might give you a six-figure job. However, the probabilities are only 10% chance that you will get that job.

0:50.0

Now if I proposed an offer like that to you, you would think this person is insane, this is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, what are you talking about even, but that's the game you're playing with law school.

1:02.0

You're going to go bust your butt for three years.

1:05.8

You're going to work hard to get good grades in law school. Oh boy.

1:09.8

15 hundred hours a year is what you're going to have to work at least and you're

1:14.6

going to have to pay for that privilege. Once you graduate maybe you'll get a

1:19.0

great job of the odds are against you. Law school is the worst investment in time and money

1:27.1

that a person could ever make, especially a young person.

1:30.4

There's a reason lawyers, even successful lawyers, all say don't go to law school.

1:35.0

I don't know a successful lawyer who tells people or encourages people to go.

1:39.0

Now a lot of people go, oh that sour grape, Sernovich, blah, blah, blah.

1:42.0

No, I keep my law license. I refer cases. A lot of people go, oh that Sour Grape Sernovich, blah, blah.

1:42.8

No, I keep my law license.

1:44.2

I refer cases here and there that come around.

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