Beyond the fact that he received a BA that guarantees you’ll need to go to grad school unless you want to teach HS for peanuts, these people lived in LOS ANGELES—one of the most expensive cities on the planet. No wonder their six-figure salary went nowhere.
Why didn’t they take their fancy law degrees and move somewhere cheaper?
Los Angeles does indeed have a lot to do with it. I’m struggling too, because my rent is about 400% of the norm. But I love it here, so I just... keep struggling.
>>Beyond the fact that he received a BA that guarantees you’ll need to go to grad school unless you want to teach HS for peanuts,
Can you even do that, any more? I think you now in many cases have to be an Education College graduate to teach in the schools.
Los Angeles has more lawyers than all of Japan. Some of them make a good living suing each other.
If they had gone to some small burgh, they would be writing wills and doing bankruptcy filings for relative peanuts.
“Why didn’t they take their fancy law degrees and move somewhere cheaper?”
Exactly, they could have lived in TN,AL,IN and many other places.
If I had to do it all over again, I would become an electrician.
Why didn’t they take their fancy law degrees and move somewhere cheaper?
Two reasons.
No recipicoity in many states. Anyone licensed just doesnt move, there are protectionist policies in place by the state licenseing boards (read guilds)
And what no place needs are more lawyers. In my state which has a law school and a small population there is hardly any job paying more than 30K that you are not competing with a lawyer for.