Single parents please answer...?
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I know it says single parents but I was a single parent with my daughter in the beginning, now I am married and have 2 kids ages 2 1/2 and 1 month. Even though there are two of us, my husband and I are getting ready to start are own business, we are only 23. I will also be going to school at the same, yes it is going to take alot of time, something that we both know we will have to sacrifice, but we both know that in the long run it will be better for our kids, we will be able to support them with out any help. granted we have a wonderful family support system. I would take some classes, maybe just a few hours a day till your son is in school and then do the full course load, that way you still have the majority of your time with him.
planning your life after his is not a crime at all. When he moves out you have all the time in the world to do what you wanna but right now i would only plan to work part tyme. being a lawyer takes up alot of tyme you have to available whenever ur client needs you so until he has moved out and started his family or his own life i would find a part time job that doesnt need alot of ur time cause he is most important right now. i hoppe my advice helps you i am telling you what i would do.
I think the hours needed to study for , become and practice as an attorney will be too much for a single mother. Once he starts elementary school, you can take the classes during the day and be with him at night.
I know it's huge, philosophically, but you are his life and will be for some time, now. Don't short change him.
i graduated and am about to become a single parent with the same issue (crim just major thinking about law school). the law career field is not cut and dry. it depends on what ur goals are. do u want to eventually run ur own practice or be partner in a practice? that takes a lot of HOURS and SACRIFICE. winning cases, preparing opening/closing statements, going over depositions and evidence, communicating with clients. lots of late nights. but this is usually peoples goal when they become lawyers and if you want to spend quality time with ur son, it wouldnt recommend it. i am going to deviate and choose something in the state court system. this way i can have more time for my family. I dont necessarily want to have my own practice, i just want to help people. its not wrong though. just be prepared to travel the road u choose.
You don't seem to be intelligent enough to be an attorney, since you have to ask this obvious question on a public forum, so I'd forget about that. I'll make it pretty clear for you, since you seem to like the attention and making things more difficult than they need to be. DON'T TAKE A JOB THAT INTERFERES WITH THE TIME FOR YOUR SON. Whew. That was hard.
In all honesty, the very minute you chose to have this baby, what you were going to want in life went out the window.
I think it would be different if you were say married and had someone stable at home to pick up the slack, but seeing as you are a single mom, your son and his needs come first, and they will until he is grown and gone.
Trying to establish yourself as an Attorney at this point would be detrimental to the relationship you have with your son.
When I found myself divorced with two girls, I found myself taking a different career road. I went from a great paying job in Pharmaceuticals, to an hourly wage that would allow me to be there when my girls got out of school, and made it possible to spend weekends with my kids.
Yes, things were a bit tough financially but we managed beautifully, and I wouldn't go back and change a thing.
The relationship between a son and his mother is indeed unique, I think it is far more interesting than that of a mother and daughter, which can be very trying. Boys are fun, enjoy yours.
Got to go with theangel on this one. I don't think you could cut it. I could just imagine you using the kid excuse to get out of studying or flaking out during exam week.
I say go for it. Get your educaton, if you don't take the chance you will never know. If you do take the chance and find that it just doesn't work you have then learned something about yourself and haven't failed. The only failure would be in not taking the chance in the first place.
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