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Hi im in my last yeat at school and consider myself to be pretty smart and stuff but im not sure what i want to do when i leave. seeing ads i have no dreams im willing to do a job which offers good money and lets me show my intelligence and show the potential ive people who surround me say ive got. So what do i have to do to become a lawyer, is it hard and will i have to put in a lot of years? plus if you know of anything more interesting i could do then please suggest it. thanks.
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asking this question just means im interested in learning about how its like to become a lawyer, from people who have experienced it themself. it aint stupidty its just id rather find out other peoples viewpoints before fully exploring it myself, if what i was told sounds good. that mcdonalds reference was really just irrelevent to anything you had to say in your answer.

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just by asking that question you are not smart enough to be a lawyer, it's like asking if a job at McDonald's is easy. You are required to go to college and then to law school and then you have to be good at to get hired. My childhood friend we graduated in 01 he is currently making 90,000 a year his second year out of law school but he went to Notre dame Graduated early and then went to Villinavoa law where he also finished early offered a job the day after finishing law school for 90000

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