By May of next year I will be $120,000 in debt
I entered law school because I had no idea what else to do with my liberal arts background. To my surprise, I developed a passion for public interest law; to my dismay, that area of the law is not particularly lucrative. Having attended college on a scholarship, I was ill-prepared for the penny-pinching that would mark my law school tenure and, in all likelihood, my future career. By May of next year I will be $120,000 in debt, and I expect to pull down between $40k and $50k a year. Fortunately, perhaps, I have no social life, and I live in a boring town with little to do but stay inside and read Wikipedia articles about 19th-century architects. So what’s a law student with a flexible schedule and limited budget to do but join Mechanical Turk? The money I’ve made so far is enough to pay for some pre-interview dry cleaning, if nothing else. And I have learned a great deal about areas previously unknown to me, like baby clothes sold on Amazon and the major publishers of fancy postcards. Now if only I could find a way to integrate “Experienced Mechanical Turk user” into my CV …
