is law boring

Subjectivity aside: yes and no, depending.

i was just comtemplating my future career and one of the options which my careers advisor said was law. i know how well paid it is and that element would be great but is it boring? looking at it it seems interesting enough however i am the kind of person that gets bored v easily so i was just wondering if law was boring and too boring for me

Damn it Profesh - you can do a better response than that! Such a short statement is not of much use to anyone (sorry, but it needed to be said - you must elaborate, as she is looking for advice).

Law (as has been said) is an incrediably intense and difficult degree, with a high proportion of independent study (something like 10 hours of lectures/tutorials and 30+ hours of independent learning a week).

There is a very large amount of reading involved (something like 5/6 hours a day) of cases and textbooks, which is seriously high. If you could not cope with that, then law is not the degree for you.

A career in law is a little different (with less reading of cases etc, and liasing with clients etc), but to cope you have got to have a high work ethic and strong self disclipine.

Hope thats been of some help.

I could also do far, far worse; bearing in mind that my post was the manifest alternative to no post at all. An open-ended question begs an open-ended response, even if it desires something quite different.

Is Law boring? It depends very much on the sort of person you are: you may well be predisposed to "find Law boring"; conversely, you may find yourself quaffing from the cup of knowledge in an almost zealous fervour, before requesting seconds. All in all, and aside from re-iterating the facts, we can only assist you in the making of an informed decision: but, make no mistake, there is no objective or conclusive resolution which might be prescribed; there is no "true" or "false", except in regards to your own perception.

Is Law boring? Well, I don't know: based on the facts, would you find it boring?

But surely you could have provided a response that at least established a framework that allowed a decision to be made at to whether it was boring - e.g. by outlining what was required in a degree, and allowing them to draw their own conclusions. You don't have to give your opinions while answering the question!

You can't really use the "lack of objective decision" argument to justify the fact that you were of absolutely no help in answering her question. You can answer the question while leaving her to make her own judgement. For someone who has a literary "talent" such as yours, when elaborated responses are required, surely you could help?

I'm going to be starting a Law degree in September. It is certainly competitive to get a place. I've been told by a lot of people that a Law degree is very 'dry', therefore some people get put off. Take a look at some prospectuses and see if you'd enjoy the course content. I've been warned that studying Law is very intensive (40hr week), so you'd have to be interested and motivated in the course.

Im such a machiavellian, ostentatious specimen who relentlessly objects to reading such enigmatic, pedantic, undulating flow of ricocheting words from i need- to - decipher this writing from the myriads of hoi polloi like the all mighty, top of the hierarchy you.

Seriously, though: questions along the lines of 'is Law boring?' p*ss me off no end.

In which case, just ignore the thread! You don't have to clutter a post with meaningless responses just because you dislike the way that someone hasn't done their research.

Also, Profesh, try to cut down on your sentence length and the number of clauses you use. It makes reading your opinion so much easier.

My first response - although somewhat facetious - served to highlight a valid point; my second post, also, made a valid point; as did my third: certainly, at the very least, they may be deemed less ostensibly 'meaningless' than the question they sought to address. I have it in my mind that to refrain from posting on such a thread would be tantamount to a blanket endorsement of vague and poorly thought-out queries: something I feel obliged to discourage, on principle; if not for my own sake, than for the sake of TSR. Can you appreciate that?

Convert this into a coherent sentence, shed the self-contradiction, and you'd be right on-track for a 'Machiavellian' and 'ostentatious' future.

Seriously, though: questions along the lines of 'is Law boring?' p*ss me off no end. If one finds oneself even asking such a question, I'd harbour reservations as whether one were at all suited to the rigours of precision, logic, citation and rationalisation that a Law course entails; although, of course, this is only my opinion.

I understand the point you are making Profesh, but surely refraining from posting is the better option for discouraging such posts?

The less a thread is posted on, the quicker it will die.

Writing comments on these posts isn't going to help discouraging them. You might stop the original poster, but you are always going to get another naive, newly registered student posting another day. Just ignore them then, Profesh.