How a Dyslexic Learned Law

Note: This article is just a personal non-professional sharing written by a down-and-out legal person who has graduated from the law department for more than ten years.

Yesterday, I read " Your job is not your job" written by @陈凯西. It mentioned the difficulty of finding a job after graduating from the Department of History. In fact, it should be a common difficulty for liberal arts students, right? This article is not written to deceive Casey's support.

As far as the author's personal job search preferences are concerned, the history department should be better than the law department. (Forget it, just say "I")

It has been noticed in the past that the job requirements of publishing houses and traditional print media are often "designated" graduates of the Department of History and Philosophy. The first two freshmen I applied for as the editor-in-chief, one of them graduated from the Department of History (the other is from the Department of Chinese). People with media work experience should have taken the logic test for entry, and logic may not require special learning. It should be trainable after a lot of reading, and history and philosophy students are trained to think strong logically(?), so the media especially like to use them.

I once went to an old publishing house for an interview. Their editor-in-chief graduated from National Taiwan University's law department, but of course he laughed at himself that he didn't do well, and the history student I hired before (Fu Jen Catholic University) was also from the same publishing house. Editor-in-chief recommendations—many publishers’ editors ask professors they know well, and they recommend students who write well—so these historians find jobs before they graduate.

 In fact, the Chinese we use lacks logic. Language and logic should be the same.

Speaking of logic, of course, law graduates cannot be ignored. But I guess it’s because most law students have low skills. If they don’t get into a decent public office, many people would rather stay at home and study hard, be a professional candidate, or maybe a law graduate who gives the impression that they are not easy to get along with, and will be judged by them. Speaking of arrogance, you can't describe in simple words , so it's impossible to ask for a " law graduate " when applying for a job, right? Supervisors don't like to use it either.

The above reasons also cause most lawyers to have to obtain licenses, otherwise they will be weak in the job market. However, if it is a legal person like me who is relatively "joined into the WTO", it does not give people the impression of a scholar, and in the eyes of the interviewer, it is easy to get along with, and it will also be given extra points because of its strong logical ability. That is: You are not like a lawyer!

Law graduates are charged with:

• difficult
• love to play word games
• Strive for reason / be reasonable

 Friedrich Nietzsche said that lawyers are a group of ruthless monsters, which just shows the image of lawyers that has been deeply rooted in the hearts of non-laws. Friedrich Carl von Savigny once said to his students: "[The characteristics of a lawyer are] calm, cold, and emotionless."

The stereotype about lawyers being nasty is said to have been around since Roman times, and these charges have long been glued to lawyers, but I'm not going to hang my book bag.

The above introduction to the history department is a bit too long.

What I want to say is the normality of unemployment after law school graduation

I thought that my first compulsory course in the law department was General Principles of Criminal Law. Of course, I entered the classroom full of enthusiasm at that time. Who would not be excited to be admitted to the law department of a national university? They have been cynical all their lives—there are nearly 200 students in the class, including senior sisters and foreign students, but the professor's ruthless eyes swept all the students and said openly: "You have to be lucky that you didn't pass the exam. National Taiwan University, you don’t have to suffer from depression after four years without becoming a lawyer and a judge!”

Is this legal man's dark humor? Even poured cold water on everyone on the first day.

However, what he said is also in line with the status quo. Many students who graduated from the law department of the National University are unwilling to accept that they cannot be admitted to lawyers and judicial judges. A special judicial examination is also relatively stable!”

In everyone's eyes, it may be a matter of course for a lawyer to be admitted to a civil service. If I sign up on a temporary basis, I will be admitted? If you fail to pass the exam, you are not serious enough... Not only the elders think this way, but there must be many lawyers who think this way. They have to fight for a lawyer, a judicial officer or a public office. Instead, it becomes a legitimate reason for not working and becoming a professional candidate.

However, I personally never wanted to take any national exams. I perfectly avoided being caught in the cycle of exams. I found a job for myself before graduating, and confidently went to fashion brands to do marketing and public relations. I don't know if the family was disappointed by this.

Written here, not getting to the point: how a dyslexic learns the law

Maybe you can catch the essence of the lawyer who cares about his right and left by reading this article! ?

I commented on Kathy's article yesterday that I have dyslexia, but just read "What is dyslexia?" Symptoms of dyslexia? 〉I found that I was exaggerating, in fact, I do not have dyslexia.

It’s just that I have been slow in reading since I was a child, and I can’t read every sentence in the book. When I read the Bible, I often fall into words, so I have the illusion that I am sick. In Matters, I saw a lot of people say that they can read one book a day and five hundred books a year. This is an impossible task for me, and I have obsessive-compulsive disorder in reading books, so I have to read them one by one. After reading a chapter or a paragraph I think myself, I will draw a mental map, starting from the main body, which also helps memorize and understand.

Not only reading, I started to study social studies in middle school and I would draw a mental map for myself, so my social brain is relatively well developed, and I seem to be better than most ordinary people in terms of interweaving concepts in several subjects (of course I can't compare with the society). It also explains why I could read Rousseau's The Social Contract at the age of sixteen and then make up my mind to read law, and I also spent a lot of time reading the book and taking detailed notes... When I read legal history, I can naturally extend to the philosophical concepts or knowledge in the Bible that I have read.

So when I write about the state of society, I directly think about who said what. For me, it is to bring out the knowledge base. I didn't consciously want to explain the "arrogance" again.

By the way, there is a self-media "Legal Vernacular Movement" that means that non-legal people can't understand legal terms. This is actually unfair to the public, and it is difficult to learn and understand lawsuits by themselves.

In order to maintain its logic and accuracy, legal terminology has developed a special language structure and style of writing, which is not only a problem in Chinese, but also makes people feel that the language ability of law readers is very good. The expression of legal terms is a common thing for those who are trained in law, but for non-lawyers, it is a means of dividing each other. The general reason is that people who can use legal texts are particularly proud.

ps since I'm having a severe headache, may be a bit underwritten