我是否该读mba 或法律

我７７年的，一个单身女孩子，英语专业的，工作了四年了，之前在杜邦，现在在个世界五百强的前十的公司，我最近一直在想自己该去读mba么，我没有管理经验，也许可以去读市场．但是我也对法律感兴趣。我不知道自己以后在走哪个路。．自己一个人也累了，也许不小了，有点想有个家，也有点贪图安稳的日子。但是我又不甘于现状．

我常常来这里逛逛，gmat一直想考了，一直没付与行动。我很迷茫，说真的，我不知道自己３０岁后该做什么工作。我不知道自己的性格是否适合读mba或者法律。

也许是自己个人的牢骚吧，但是stop by 的朋友可否给我点建议呢。

谢谢XDJM了哦。

我虽然要比楼主小好多~~

但我觉得如果想出国的话 就尝试一记吧~~

等你把改考完的考试都考完了 你就知道你到底要不要出国了

一楼你好！你的困惑我很理解，其实我和我的一些朋友在决定考LSAT 之前都有和你类似的困惑.

我本科也是英语, 来美国才决定学法律的，原因是想不出更好的专业，刚好又接触到一些这里的律师和他们的生活，感觉还不错，加上周围人的撺掇, 于是上了贼船, 前途未卜, 但决定之后就不再去考虑这个决定是否明智了.

我刚开始也和你有同样的困惑:我这种性格的人适合学法律吗? 我们对律师的STEREOTYPE就是能言善辩, AGGRESSIVE, 我感到自己是在是不象. 但后来更多地去了解这个行业后发现，律师不一定就得咄咄逼人，亲和力和与人的沟通能力也很重要;律师可以做很多行业的工作，电影里的那些上庭辩护的律师只是这个行业很小很小的一部分,其实律师更多的是在做PAPERWORK, 与人沟通, 做NEGATIONATION; 而且，这个行业是通向其他很多行业的一个通道，美国律师在从业5年左右之后转向其他行业的比例是很高的.

对于上法学院, 我们中国人要考虑更多的实际问题，首先, 资金,没有奖学金的话，花费是在10万美圆左右,在美国贷款需要绿卡或公民做CO-SIGNER.有奖学金就比较幸运了，但一般不要打算会有全奖(there is, though). So usually you would have to prepare quite a bunch of money for your law education. Secondly, as lawyer-1 pointed out, the law career is something that you have to be very serious with. You would probably work 70 hrs a week, with few vacations.  

Besides, we have language problem. Writing skill, speaking, cultural understanding. These are tough challenges to us. Well, of course, we could get over them if we are determined and work hard enough.

One good thing i know about lawyering is, some lawyers, especially those solo practitioners, can control their own schedule and even work at home. Girls definitely love that : )

Unfortunately, an idea job for a law student is working at a big law firm, which is highly competitive and stressful

I know a friend, who is a girl and has similar experience as you have. She made up her mind because she found she could not go on with her current job as engineer and she is so passionate about law.  

You have to be determined before you even think about taking the LSAT. The process of taking the test and applying to law school could burn you out. So if you do not persuade yourself into doing it in the first place, the whole thing could become very annoying and frustrating. In short, if your mentality is not ready, don't even start it.

I know many Chinese students apply to JD because they major in law in under, so it seems like a kind of natural course. they don't have such strugglings as we have.

you actually have better background than I. You have pretty good work experience, which would be a plus to your application.

the law career is chanllenging and rewarding. But i also heard some people saying that a woman lawyer will probably find it hard to marry herself out.  

忍不住赞一下chelsea这篇文章，很有说服力。读法律面临的问题和rewarding都给说了。不愧是位未来的律师。我要麽就誓死如归地，毫不犹豫地去奔向JD，要麽就从此打消了读JD的念头，不再奢望。

“But i also heard some people saying that a woman lawyer will probably find it hard to marry herself out. ” 这点倒不用担心，世上好男人多的是，只要自己有足够的charm，不怕没有好男人拜倒在石榴裙下。况且法律的就业范围其实不限于当律师，就业于公务员，咨询行业，公司法律顾问，甚至做生意的不少。等等都不少，就业范围很广。再说，那个行业的顶尖女性都会面临着选择范围窄的问题，道理很简单，女孩找老公常是找比自己优秀的（虽然有些嘴上不说），自己都够优秀了，所谓高处不胜寒。这是个普遍现象，不是法律独有，法律行业多点的原因只是法律界的女性多数较优秀。也就是你优秀是hard to marry out 的因，不是读法律是hard to marry out 的因。如果你很优秀，即使不读法律，也一样hard to marry out.

I will probably do a poll on this issue: How many men want to marry a lawyer?

There is an episode in  Sex and the City, where Miranda could not get a date saying she is a lawyer, hehe. I have been wondering how true it is

谢谢各位的意见哦，我一直都知道法律辛苦，所以都想了好久好久了，都没有付出行动。有时候我们努力过了也许才发现那个为之一直努力的不是我们所要的。其实我申请过美国，还有纽约大学录取，不过我发现那个专业会给自己带来困惑。我的性格不够tough，虽然我知道法律可以有很多的就业形式，但是我想绝对理性是律师的很大特点吧．而我做不到吧．

我不了解法律。不过发现自己有兴趣而已，也许有时候有兴趣的东西自己不一定就适合干，或者干的好。不过呢，没有一个人公司可以待一辈子的，起码我还没想过，那我３０岁以后该干什么呢？

谢谢lawyer_1 and chelseayang，pumpkin,如果有时间，可以上msn or qq 交流下么．

all  friends are welcome. i will be online after office hour around 9pm.

msn Lt_sz2(A) hotmail.com

qq 80926383

to be either JD or MBA, it's a delima. nonetheless it is not exclusive!

so, we can contemplate the joint degree.