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by thefatman11 » Wed Dec 14, 2016 4:02 am
At the end of the day, I believe that I'm just craving praise and admiration. When I was attending my Ivy League UG, whenever people asked me what I was doing, or where I was studying, they all lightened up and showered me with my praise when I told them. They were like, "wow, you must be extremely smart." However, now, whenever I tell people I'm just a salesman, they're like, "oh, meh, that's interesting."
I make a lot of money, but people don't automatically respect me, or view me as smart, the way I used to. Meanwhile, my lawyer friends in biglaw, and also management consultants, and i-bankers still get treated well and viewed as highly intelligent when they reveal their professions (and academic history) to others. I think that's the main reason I want to go to law school or become a lawyer- so that my educational attainment and profession will be a heuristic for others to view me as very smart.
Call me a shallow POS, and yes I am, but having lay prestige would bring me subjective happiness, more so than lacking lay prestige but making $$.
Since so many of you are dissuading me from pursuing law school, what other paths do you recommend? I'm not super into academia because I want both lay prestige + $$, so I think corporate law or management consulting gives you the both of best worlds. Maybe an M7 MBA into MBB consulting is the best path for me then.