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Jab tak 2 time khana khao. Jitna kam ho sake khao. Jitna kam ho sake sona. Working hours toh subhanallah manage kar loge.
Arre haan ghar waale jab puchenge ke beta apne jo 2-3 lakh rupaye padhai mai lagwaye uska kya nateeja hai, toh bolna haan. Pridely bolna ghar waalo ko ke isliye lawyer hu. Paise kamane ki kya zarurat hai. Aap log apna dekh lo. Khud se jo karte rahe ho wahi karte raho. Mujhse umeed mat rakho. Aur haan har mahine 12 hazaar mere account mai credit kardo. Woh kya hai na ham lawyers hai, kamana nahi hai apan ko. Hamare seniors seekhate hai hame itni achhi baatein.!!
Talking about stipend which is your main concern, if you develop and rapport with the person and they are open minded ( rare in legal field "sigh"), they will pay stipend.
Alternatively, look for internships which pay (not many exist). Assessment interns get paid though in good law firms.
Majority firms (excluding the top firms) pay 10-15k and max 35-40k to 0-3 PQE. No one cares and that amount doesn't mean much over time.
Please learn other skills on the side or keep grinding and get a corporate/inhouse role.
Hope this helps.
Ultimately, we need to privatise education in STEM so that quality of education improves and not everyone has to sacrifice their childhood and mental health for JEE/NEET and we desperately need population control bill.
I mean this attitude is apt to reflect how degenerated people in this profession are. I have my friends and cousins doing internships in their fields. And they kind of snort when I tell them about how much we slog in our profession and there are times we are straightaway told such things by the organisation that we don't pay stipend, and then there are times when we don't know the amount of stipend even if there is any. Needless to say, our stipend also generally range within the bracket of Rs. 5k to 10k mostly. While in other profession, 10k or 15k is just the starting point. The vast difference in amount of investments in legal profession or maybe IT field, and then such type of commercial value in the market, makes me really question that why haven't the things changed even in 2023 for legal profession?
Am I wrong to raise such genuine concerns?