25-09-2025, 10:17 PM
(25-09-2025, 09:41 PM)Altruist Wrote: yeah, as i said, it's really national job market dependent. specially with law, because it's way less universal than, idk, medicine or engineering (not that the difference in laws between two, say EU, countries is night and day, but it's exactly knowing the specifics of the national legislation that makes you desireable on the labor market).
obviously my example is not too relevant because i earned prodigy rep 1.5 semesters in, but from what i ve noticed generally, two biggest problems for law graduates regarding finding a good job are:
1. reputable firms couldnt care less about you as a human being and only hire young people to exploit them for a couple of years, because they know that they ll easily replace them when they start complaining and asking for a better treatment (way too many people graduating from law schools here every year, idk if that's the case in other eu countries too)
2. reputable firms look for people who can get them clients, because even exquisite legal reasoning skills can only get you so far sometimes. at a higher level lawyering is basically lobbying; everyone knows the law and intricacies of, idk, civil procedure at that level, so it's about what leverage do you have as a person. you knowing or being relatives with people whose friends own large companies >>>> you being some tryhard nerd who memorized obscure laws and CJEU praxis on a certain topic, but needs google maps to find a store in his neighborhood
just yesterday i attended a hearing as a replacement for my friend (lawyers usually ask for this when they have hearings at other courts and know you are gonna be around that day), and the opposing counsel happened to be one of those faggots who just troll and "shitpost" in the first instance procedure because they know that, even if they lose the case, they'll just pull some connections and get the verdict overturned by some of their buddies on II° instance court. the judge was visibly pissed off from the beginning of the hearing because he's been through that a billion times with that specific lawyer
i could write essays and essays about this, obviously, but it's too exhausting in english
Hm yeah that makes sense, she was always tryharding studying, I doubt that she even has a single contact from uni at this very moment, I would probably do better than her in that aspect, but it is kinda brutal how much of the whole earning part of life is just nepotism and upbringing.
