Every person who graduates with a degree in the humanities or social sciences will eventually have to decide whether or not to go to law school.

Unless you explicitly rule out going to law school, it will always be there in the background, haunting you. If you're underemployed, got good grades, and went to a decent college, then you're triply at risk: you're on the express train to law school. If you want to get off it then you're going to need to jump out and hope that the landing is softer tha…
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