The Lawyering Vent

I’m having a horrible, terrible, no good, very bad attitude about lawyering (not the class – the profession), and I am hopeful that if I vent, it will go away.  So, PLEASE taking this in the light that it is meant (a bad day reflection on my chosen career).  Here are this weeks overarching, stereotypical, conclusions about lawyers:  

1. Lawyers (as a whole) are not sewn from the same socially supportive fabric as teachers.  I draw this conclusion, not actually from any recent experience in the law school, as I am immersed in the environment and that closeness sometimes keeps me from noticing what is missing.  But rather, I draw that conclusion from my experience outside the law school, in Philosophic Theories of Education, where I find myself suddenly able to breathe.  (And I add the disclaimer that I am in no way passionate about learning philosophic theories of education – on the contrary, I have already found myself yawning through a discussion of relativism)

1. In a class this week I learned that it is without doubt that some time during my career my own ethics will conflict with the requirements of my profession and at that nexus I will have to make the choice between staying with or leaving the profession.  Strangely, I don’t remember that discussion in my education to be a teacher or even an anthropologist.  I don’t remember ever being told that someday I would be required to do something that I thought was morally and ethically wrong.