Thanks for sharing that ! I appreciate it ! <| sep |> 11 . If anything that makes it way cooler imo <| sep |> Pretty sure the chef ' s are still serving turkey for dinner . The point isn ' t a stance against eating turkeys , it ' s just kind of a cute silly tradition to my knowledge . Plus , young presidential kids take the best pics by the handsome turkeys their size . The infants are always awestruck . <| sep |> My mother ' s family were British expats living in Cyprus during the war . The Turkish general in charge of the invasion stole my grandfather ' s yacht , the fucker . <| sep |> Make him watch the first hour of Noam Chomsky ' s Requiem for an American Dream <| sep |> And nobody should . <| sep |> Paywalled # No jobs for law graduates ? They fare better than most Is the ofttouted glut of law graduates real ? The statistics suggest not . by Carolyn Evans At this time of year , many young people flood out of schools , colleges and universities and commence looking for their first fulltime job . The students graduating into today ' s economy have it tough over the last few years the job prospects for graduates have declined , although they remain much better than they are for those that enter the workforce straight out of high school . If you were to pay attention to much of the media and the chatter in legal circles , it would be fair to conclude that some of the worst off of all graduates must be the law students . Lawyers regularly warn their children not to take up the law because job prospects are so bad . It is time to bring a few facts into this debate in place of hysteria and anecdote which have so far been dominant . The first step to doing so is to get a realistic sense of how many law graduates complete law school each year . The Council of Australian Law Deans this year undertook a comprehensive survey of all university law schools and asked them how many graduates completed last year with a degree that allows them to enter the legal profession such as an LLB or JD . With a 100 per cent response rate , the answer was 7 , 583 . That is around half the 16 , 000 that is often cited . # Higher salaries The second important step is to get a sense of how law students fare compared to other groups entering the workforce a far more useful comparison for students making choices about what degree to study than saying that things were much better 10 years ago . Law students do well compared to their peers in other disciplines . Law graduates have a higher rate of employment , a higher average starting salary and a higher lifetime earnings premium than the average graduate . This is particularly true of law graduates compared to those in sciences and maths areas into which governments have been urging more students in recent years . # Not all rosy This is not to say that the outcome is rosy for all law graduates some of them are unemployed , some have given up on jobs in law to pursue other options , and some have settled for a job in law that is less than ideal . It is only to say that this is the case in almost every discipline and that law graduates do better than most . Parents who are urging their children away from law and into sciences should have a good , hard look at the data rather than the rhetoric on employability . A final important step in helping to have an informed debate about law graduate numbers is to provide a much richer , more detailed analysis of where law graduates actually end up working . Melbourne Law School has taken a step in this direction by this week releasing the results of surveys of the classes of 2013 and 2014 . We have a detailed breakdown of the percentage of graduates in different types of employment and a long list of the various employers for whom they work . The most recent survey of Melbourne Law School graduates shows particularly strong results with 98 per cent employment and 73 per cent of those employed working as a legal graduate trainee , barrister , solicitor or judge ' s associate and most of the rest in good graduate roles or employed in other legal roles . We list more than 125 different employers from the legal and nonlegal sectors who employed our students showing the wide range of possibilities there are out there for law graduates . We hope that by sharing the facts , students can make an informed choice about the study of law and that the legal profession can gain a better understanding of the place of law student employment in the wider context of the market for university graduates generally .