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A "Good" Job or Your Dream Career? - debrief with cece xie

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I’ve always found 18 to be a silly age for legal adulthood. Some people are children well into their twenties and thirties (and forties and beyond, let’s be real); others grow up much earlier due to life circumstances. But I understand the need for bright-line rules: the government can’t individually evaluate maturity. Age is a proxy for responsibility. There are many formulations of adulthood, but I’d argue the standard is when we first weigh passion and stability and ultimately choose, of our own volition, stability. That moment, when we acknowledge the full weight of Responsibility, marks the severing between childhood and adulthood. Stable paths are by definition known paths—predictable because many have traversed those same routes before. There is a reason that law school applications are up 22.9% at ABA-accredited schools: periods of economic and social instability drive people to flock to career paths perceived as stable, such as law. When the world feels uncertain, hiding in gr

I’ve always found 18 to be a silly age for legal adulthood. Some people are children well into their twenties and thirties (and forties and beyond, let’s be real); others grow up much earlier due to life circumstances. But I understand the need for bright-line rules: the government can’t individually evaluate maturity. Age is a proxy for responsibility. There are many formulations of adulthood, but I’d argue the standard is when we first weigh passion and stability and ultimately choose, of our own volition, stability. That moment, when we acknowledge the full weight of Responsibility,…

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