I'm still debating if to apply this cycle or wait for next, as I'm currently straight out of undergrad and am starting an awesome new job!
How old will you be when starting law school? How many years of work experience will you have by then? :)
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64 with careers in Engineering and medicine as a trauma surgeon.
35 haha. 13 years of full time post-college work experience. :) Old timer.
49 with 8 years of corporate experience followed by 20 years of running my own business and 2 years of grad school. Variety is the spice of life!!
I will be 45 years old, and as all granddads say. "I forgot more than all the young people know"
50, 23 years running my own company and years of volunteer work.
47 years old assuming I start next fall, 25 years active duty military, 3 years of full time volunteering.
29 with about 11 years of work experience :)
I have already started though...
Will be 29. A master degree and 2.5 yr experience as a mommy :D
I am soooo glad to see some older students here. I will be 41 when I start law school and it is comforting to know that others will be older students. I spent 10 years in the military and the last 5 working as a volunteer teacher in the Dominican Republic. I always wanted to law school but I felt I wasn't ready...that I needed to do other things first. I am very grateful that I had that time, it has really given me a broader perspective and understanding of the world and people.
But I am also grateful to the younger students who can offer a perspective of a generation I am not as connected to...the broader the perspective the better we all learn and the better prepared for real world law practice we will be.
38 years with 15 years of experience that has absolutely nothing to do with law. But despite having less freedom because I have family obligations, I feel like I just got to an age where I can do law school right and focus on learning and not just the piece of paper at the end.
I spoke with a lawyer and he says that he wished that he worked as something else before going straight to law school. It helps mitigate that "greener grass on the other side" feeling, or that, "what if I worked as this," thought. That doesn't apply for people who definitely want to be a lawyer, though.
It's good to see so many of you starting young! I will be 38 with 19 years of HR experience- closely related as I handle Labor and Employment. I also will have 2 kids in college and a graduate degree!
29! With ten years of work experience. My only legal experience was an internship a few summers ago
@cgracia12433 said:
I'll be 26. 3.5 years of work experience. On a side note, how are some of you guys under thirty but have 10+ years of work experience?
@lesktat308 said:
@drbrown2259 said:
I've been working since I was 16. My high school jobs were not full time during Baseball and Basketball season, but I worked full time from 18 until now in various administrative, service, and management positions. Although I wish I had not taken a 5 year break in the middle of undergrad, I am better at time management here in my late twenties than I was as a freshman in college ;)
@cgracia12433 said:
@lesktat308 said:
@cgracia12433 said:
I'll be 26. 3.5 years of work experience. On a side note, how are some of you guys under thirty but have 10+ years of work experience?
@lesktat308 said:
@drbrown2259 said:
I started work when I graduated HS at 18 and the work was uninterrupted. 18+11 = 29!
Woah. That sounds tough. I forget what you worked in. Were you in the forces?
Panera for 1 years, Best Buy for 5, Marine Corps for 4, 9th Circuit Court for 1 year.
Law firm too sprinkled in lol
I'll be 22 k-jd. Definitely feel at a disadvantage to the folks who have real work/life experience
I'll be 30. 4 yrs work experience + a Master's degree.
@cgracia12433 said:
I'll be 26. 3.5 years of work experience. On a side note, how are some of you guys under thirty but have 10+ years of work experience?
@lesktat308 said:
@drbrown2259 said:
I started work when I graduated HS at 18 and the work was uninterrupted. 18+11 = 29!
I will be 36, 14 years out of college with a variety of work experience having nothing to do with the law. I teach high school and my future classmates will be much closer in age to my students than to me. Awkward...
41 with experience in medical billing and doing expert witness/lien litigation for the last eight years. But, I've been working since I could get a job.
26 with 3 (soon to be 4) years of experience working in private practice (Real Estate Law).
I thought I was the only one!
As far as I'm concerned, the older the better. I'm actually thankful I'm going in with a more mature mindset, especially having some work related experience under my belt. Weird...I'm actually excited for school haha.
Assuming this next cycle goes well, I’ll be starting in the Fall of 2020 one month before my 34th b-day.
26, with 3 years of work experience as a Financial Analyst, also a Master's Degree in Finance. Glad to see older people. I thought I would feel out of place with a lot of 22 year olds around.
24 with 9 years work experience. My only legal experience was an internship last fall.
26/27 with 3 years work exp.