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Is it easy to find a job as a lawyer after law school?

Law School vs. NP School?

  • I am currently a registered nurse trying to decide between Law School and Nurse Practitioner School. I know that the career outlook for lawyers is bleak, however, going to law school and being a lawyer is something I have always wanted to do. If going the NP route, I would specialize in Psychiatric-Mental Health. The job possibilities are very favorable. Going the NP route would actually cost me more at the school I was accepted to...so being a freshly graduated lawyer with debt up to my ears would not be the case. I was accepted into a Tier 3 school. It is the only one in my state and I have no plans of leaving the state after graduation...so this area does not have the yearly increases in the amt of new lawyers seeking work. (I do still realize that those areas probably have more people/businesses, thus more opportunities.) I also realize that if I cannot find work as a lawyer, I can always fall back on my nursing degree until I can. Nursing does interest me as well. NPs are looked more favorably upon than lawyers. Is the salary comparable? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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    It seems you've already made up your mind that law school is the way you will go. But you might want to do more research into employment opportunities and pay for new lawyers. At the present time, neither is very good. My suggestion would be that you do NP. It is a growing profession with a lot of opportunities. Major health care reforms are coming in the not too far off future, and with planned cuts in Medicare and Medicaid I see primary care shifting away from doctors and more towards NPs in the years to come.

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It seems you've already made up your mind that law school is the way you will go. But you might want to do more research into employment opportunities and pay for new lawyers. At the present time, neither is very good. My suggestion would be that you do NP. It is a growing profession with a lot of opportunities. Major health care reforms are coming in the not too far off future, and with planned cuts in Medicare and Medicaid I see primary care shifting away from doctors and more towards NPs in the years to come.

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To be an NP you would first have to get your BSN and several years of nursing experience first.

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To be an NP you would first have to get your BSN and several years of nursing experience first.

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