Submitted 2 days ago by bimbo_with_a_brain@sh.itjust.works to [deleted]
The legal industry is about to get upended by LLMs.
Lawyers document their work every 6 minutes.
Lawyers do a lot of writing.
Lawyers should be ready to set aside their personal beliefs. Everyone deserves legal counsel, no matter the reason.
The legal industry is about to get upended by LLMs.
Less then you think, there has been many cases where a judge has slapped substantial fines on lawyers for submitting briefs with references to fake cases. And these are not small law firms either.
Those are just bad lawyers getting caught out.
LLMs can do a lot work that results in lower billable hours besides generating briefs. Less hours = less work to do.
Well if you really don’t have a preference for one or the other, it might be worth keeping an eye on the future.
People’s jobs, especially expensive jobs, are going to be replaced by software.
So ask yourself:
What does an accountant do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?
What does a lawyer do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?
What does a doctor do that wouldn’t be possible to automate in software?
From where I’m sitting, medicine seems the safest bet.
If you have to ask other people whether you should be a doctor, you should not be a doctor.
Do you want to leave your country, at least for a bit of time (or is it possible that political/social instabilities will make you want that in the future)? That could be a hint for medicine.
I studied law for 3 years and hated it, but it’s mostly because of my philosophical/political beliefs. On the bright side, it is very diverse, so you could quite easily connect it to something you like (art, environment, digital, politics, etc).
Anyway, good luck for your exams!
Not doctor or lawyer. Someone who wished they knew more broadly about specialisations and society before comitting.
Medicine has a lot of branches and possibilites that you might want to consider, from phlebotomy (analysis of samples) to neurosurgery. If you enjoy diagnosing problems, physical experiments and actions, or interpersonal empathetic skills, this might be a better field for you.
Law involves lots of research and documentation, and analysis of text based rules against each other. If you like reading/writing copious amounts of text, analysing rules, discussions, verbal communications, this might suit you more.
Accountancy will involve more number use in abstract, and more computer use to manage calculations.
This isn’t a question random people on the internet can answer easily, but I can offer you some things to think about which might help.
I’m in a medical field in the UK and do some interviewing so I’d be asking you why you want to pick a job with long hours, bad pay (comparatively for the responsibility), poor working conditions? Medicine is not a job for people who want to breeze through or are just a little bit interested in biology and people.
I’d recommend you get some work experience, health care assistant jobs are commonplace in the UK and a great way to see if medicine is right for you, universities here look on it very favourably as well. If you can do a 12 hour shift where you are exposed to blood, poo, urine and vomit and still want to go back for more then I’d say medicine is probably an ok field for you.
What are your goals? Helping people is a common response in medical interviews but you can help in lots of ways, law like you’ve already been considering, engineering, accounting etc. What do you get out of medicine that you can’t get elsewhere?
Do you want to make lots of money and have an easier life, don’t pick medicine, pick something else.
nimpnin@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
What interests you and what do you value? There are no universal answers to a question like this.
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 2 days ago
Agreed on this. We don’t know you (OP) well enough to answer this. For me it would be clear because I find law interesting (it isn’t what I studied but I considered it for a long timr