Where the author makes an important and liberating discovery.
December 4th, 2006 | by Scott Jennings |I wanted to tell you all first — I’ve decided not to enroll in law school next fall.
The more I thought about it, the more stressed about it I became, and the more I began to realize that this move wasn’t about what I wanted to do with my life as much as it was about taking a three year break from the real world. And if I really want to take a three year break from the real world, I can do it much less expensively than law school. And the fact that I’d have been good at law school and good at being a lawyer doesn’t mean that I’m supposed to be doing it.
I’m 27, I’m smart, I’m anxious, I want to know what my fucking deal is, I want to know what the hell path I’m supposed to be on. There’s no getting around the simple fact that being a lawyer sucks and it’s not going to not-suck just for me. And there’s no getting around the fact that I can see the beginning of the path that I am supposed to be on, and it’s going to be much harder than law school or being a lawyer. This path doesn’t have a graduate degree or a bar exam on it; I have everything I need, and I’m ready. Now it’s time to start fucking doing it, whatever it takes.
How’s that for everything/nothing, fans?
