Law or not

The first day of CNY. Wow.

Only thing that kept me excited was that 140 dollars Levis Jeans. I'll probably be wearing it for the entire festive season. The Levis underwear though was a disappointment. The 3 studs got their sizes wrong. Medium size was too small, the Freddie Ljungberg-Calvin Klein effect just didn't pull off.

The subject of consideration about my future course in university has reached its most intricate crossroads.

I was determined to just chuck away the Comm studies module if I get pass the Law interview the next month. I was indecisive in the very first place about Comm studies, I thought someone like me who has no aptitude whatsoever for the sciences should not even attempt Engineering, Medicine, Bio-chem and all that bullshit you wanna call them. It's not like I'm interested in them as well.

I thought Comm studies is probably something for me, considering a big part of my childhood was involved in variety shows, tv serials, voice recordings, tv commercials and so on. I love to write shit too. So, you know, along that line.

After applying for it and getting through, i had second thoughts, yea indecisive bastard, bad focus, dunno wat I want in life. Cheapskate degree. Too general and all that nonsense. Poly one better. Graduates tan bo jia ( struggle to earn a living ). Reasons so on and so forth.

Then I had a dinner with a few of my good old Sec2 classmates, many of which are applying for law. That was last year. I pick up books like 'How to study Law in University', read about the cirriculum, checked out the Singapore Law system and then picture myself doing it. I think I could. It's not science. It's a professional degree. It's more prestgious. The Law school is strict with the quality of the intake of students. So I thought I should give it a try, learn to like it since I like nothing else.

My uncle working in a MNC firm as regional manager then told me about his struggling lawyer friends who keep procrastinating their lousy career and lousy life. The bleak future of the legal profession. The even bleaker prospects of meeting ends meet. Only the top survive. At least the 2nd class upper honours. Or an affluent family background to string in the contacts. If not, it's pretty much condemmed. It's a useless degree. An even more useless career. Which makes me even a more useless person.

That is no joke from a person who has been in this competitive working climate for more than 20 years. He dared me to ruin my life.

A day later which is today, my uncle's brother-in-law who is a NUS Law lecturer gave me advice and what to expect from this degree and its prospects. Which was really kind of him.
He said that the Law degree is a very good one and the training that Law school provides is invaluable but choosing a legal profession thereafter may be a critical choice and a great risk, much will depend on the state of the business climate. He also mentioned that at least 95% of law graduates graduate with a minimum of second lower class honours which was something I was unaware of.

I will still give this course a shot. Nothing's finalised. I'll see how well I fare in the interview. If I don't get in, so be it, solves the problem. If I do, that'll be crunch time and my most difficult decision to make till date. That date.