swiftycool:
Personally I think law has fallen mightily from grace to grass in Naija. Many people used to see lawyers as biggest boys and girls but today its the reverse. I realised that while @uni most of us dirty scruffy looking students back then in Built environment and engineering were made to look insignificant but today most of the law undergrads then, even the senior ones presently earn less than 1/2 our monthly income despite working in some of the best private firms! So sad.

So here's a list of my percieved currently most ridiculed professions.
1. LaW
2. philosophy
3. Zoology
4. Marketing
5. Banking and finance(contested by every single profession)

Feel free to add urs or reject mine

BlueDiva:
What is a useless career? There are poorly paid doctors and well paid lawyers.
There are well paid writers and poorly paid architects.

It's silly when people generalize.
What can you make of your career? That is the question.

A graduate of fine arts will turn out to be a renowned artist, who exhibits his work round the world.
On the other hand, a doctor may remain too lazy to specialize and spend his life being a GP operating from an obscure hospital.

A career is what you make of it.
No such thing as a ridiculed profession!

bookface:



Such despicable arrogance. How dare you even describe a certain career as fallen from grace to grass? what an act of gloating.

My dad was a lawyer for many years till he retired recently. He still finds so much pride in the things he used to do and places the tenets of the profession in high regard. What a contemptuous fellow you must be to describe a lifestyle he holds so dear as fallen from grace to grass?


Yes Banking and Finance may not be as highly paid as it used to be simply because the sector is taking a hit, but if not for an act of self glorification, i see no reason why some empty headed goat like you must describe what another person considers a way of life a ridiculed profession. each person to their way of life. If you don't like bankers or have a disdain for lawyers then stay away from banks and stay out of courts. Those who take up those jobs and who do well at it do so because they enjoy what they do. If you enjoy what you do as well or even better paid, then don't piss on others.

And no, we get the purpose of your post from onset. You were just in for the fun of it. I bet all you wanted is to get a good laugh and find a reason to buy yourself a cookie for being the lucky donkey who had a great job.

AncientJerk:
this topic making front page just when i\ve decided to go back to school to study law

i remain undeterred even at my age....circa 25 to go back and do what it takes to get that degree, ridicule and rubbish or not.

you guys just don't get it... its about doing what you are good at and what you love to do. there are so many who did law not because of their love and aptitude for law but solely because that was what they felt that had to do thus there is now a disproportionate mass of lawyers fighting for jobs and opportunities. But the thing is, those who deliberately chose and are choosing to study law out of a genuine love and aptitude for the profession will get those limited jobs and opportunities while those who merely tagged along as a mixed multitude of sorts will find themselves jostling at the bottom rung of the ladder. i have nothing against these ones; they are merely victims of the system but we must change this system.

do what is meant for you, be diligent at it and success will not (because it cannot) elude you.

Elipsis:
And this made frontpage after 2 yrs!

I really don't understand how Law came into that list. With the advent of democracy, lawyers have been making it big time. Now, people are free to exercise and defend their constitutional rights.

Furthermore, the legal profession doesn't start and end in litigation. Gone are the days when u'd have to wear ur robes and appear in court before u make it as a lawyer. Now, most corporate bodies have a Legal department which handles its legal issues. No sale of land can be effectively concluded without the involvement of a lawyer who usually takes 10-20% of the cost of sale.

Every election period, lawyers make hundreds of millions of naira for handling a single election petition. This is money d Op may probably make in 2 yrs.

Anyways, my point is that the profession is very diversified. From criminal law to oil and gas law; from international law to property law to corporate law, the list is just endless.
A brilliant lawyer will fit into any of the numerous options and make serious cash.

So, Op Shun abeg. The legal profession shouldn't be on that list.

maum:
Policing. Working in NEPA. Working in LASTMA.

Infact the only uniformed guys that have regard are the armed Foces. so from police to all its brothers, thosse ones ehn...

swiftycool:
Years ago every university graduate whatever the descipline was seen as one with potentials to excel and commanded respect from all; literates and illiterates alike. However, overtime and presently in Nigeria perhaps due to socio-economic as well as technological trends some professions have become isolated as a waste of time or ridiculed as not having an easy chance for prosperity in the country, while others hitherto unknown are presently shinning and lucrative in todays Nigerian environment.

Now my question is which do you think is the most ridiculed profession in Nigeria today or which profession has fallen from grace to grass and why do u say or think so?

Thanks for enligthening replies. . . .

swiftycool:
Years ago every university graduate whatever the descipline was seen as one with potentials to excel and commanded respect from all; literates and illiterates alike. However, overtime and presently in Nigeria perhaps due to socio-economic as well as technological trends some professions have become isolated as a waste of time or ridiculed as not having an easy chance for prosperity in the country, while others hitherto unknown are presently shinning and lucrative in todays Nigerian environment.

Now my question is which do you think is the most ridiculed profession in Nigeria today or which profession has fallen from grace to grass and why do u say or think so?

Thanks for enligthening replies. . . .

swiftycool:
Personally I think law has fallen mightily from grace to grass in Naija. Many people used to see lawyers as biggest boys and girls but today its the reverse. I realised that while @uni most of us dirty scruffy looking students back then in Built environment and engineering were made to look insignificant but today most of the law undergrads then, even the senior ones presently earn less than 1/2 our monthly income despite working in some of the best private firms! So sad.

So here's a list of my percieved currently most ridiculed professions.
1. LaW
2. philosophy
3. Zoology
4. Marketing
5. Banking and finance(contested by every single profession)

Feel free to add urs or reject mine