I'm almost forty years old and want to be a lawyer, is that okay? #
As far as the general social concept is concerned, it is a bit late to become a lawyer in his forties, and it is inevitable that he will have all kinds of worries; Use the sharing of people who have come before to cheer everyone up.
I worked as a part-time worker and a boss, and after a few tosses, I realized that I really wanted to be a lawyer, so I went to become a lawyer when I was nearly 50 years old.
At the beginning of the first year of independent practice, I really had no bottom in my heart, and I also made plans for the worst: I didn't open for a year, and I had a hard life for three years. Looking back a year later, I found that my original plan was a bit conservative, but the reality was much more optimistic.
Because of my age, I also pay more attention to the elderly colleagues around me who have changed careers and become new lawyers. A lawyer next to me, who changed careers at the age of 50, combined with the advantages of long-term human resource management in the past, started with enterprise labor disputes, and there were an average of 2 cases per month in a year. Chatting with him after the Spring Festival, I am very optimistic about the performance development in the new year: in the new year, I have already received two perennial legal advisers, and it is expected that the number of litigation cases will double in the new year. The characteristics of his business development, I observed and analyzed, focusing on a high-quality and low-price, taking the case at a relatively low level, and doing it seriously every time he took on a case.
One of the disadvantages is that because of the age, many age-based opportunities in the profession (such as a large number of legal aids) are gone; But there are also some advantages: for example, when the general party sees an old face, they will trust you more without asking, I call this "beard points", because of the extra points obtained by "beard length". Another example, the communication with the parties, because the elderly have more social experience, they can naturally talk more deeply about the sophistication of people: legal business entrustment is based on trust entrustment, when the other party feels that you "understand" him and "understand" what is being discussed, the trust will be more, your chances of getting the commission will be more, and the business will slowly develop with the accumulation of trust a little bit.
Being a lawyer is a kind of entrepreneurship. A kind of entrepreneurship that starts as a "self-employed" person. When starting a business for the first time, there are naturally many things that need to be relearned, such as how to "survive" through the initial stage of "business"? To start a business across industries, it is natural to learn various operational methods for new entrants. These, regardless of age.
Being a lawyer is a kind of entrepreneurship. From part-time work to entrepreneurship, from drought and flood insurance to income is unpredictable, the bottom line of income security is broken, and the ceiling of income development is also broken: not only to think about how to deal with the difficult stage of long-term no income, but also to "imagine" and "fantasize" a better life after the business grows in the future. "Dreams", there should be a little bit at all times! This, too, has nothing to do with age.
Nearly 40 years old, want to be a lawyer, can you?" That's great! In this world, there are few industries suitable for the elderly to change careers, and lawyers are one of them.
Encourage those who want to change careers in "old" years, have changed careers in "old" years, and want to be lawyers!