- The legal profession is deeply structured, highly regulated and shaped by long-established traditions that do not bend easily to impatience.
- Success in law is often slow, deliberate and built through consistent effort rather than sudden breakthroughs.
- Passion and patience remain essential for anyone hoping to build a meaningful and lasting legal career.
You join the second-oldest profession in the world, which is the legal profession. Remember that the first oldest profession is prostitution, followed by lawyers, judges, rulers, lawmakers and interpreters of the law. A profession older than dinosaurs is very old.
You cannot join a mature profession; the prices are known, the ranks are set, the precedents are archived, the standards are structured, and the growth patterns are ordered. You just want to arrive and rock the boat. You want to grow like you started the whole thing.
Any professional growth will be determined by the maturity of that profession. The oldest profession cannot have the quickest growth. An old profession will require one to be patient and relaxed. The legal profession is so old that you cannot enter and play by your own rules. Every aspect of the profession has been regulated and monitored, so compliance is compulsory.
A profession shaped by structure
Many will think of quick growth. In the legal profession, we are already likely to know who will be senior counsel, senior judges and justices. You cannot come to this profession and become a momentary sensation or a one-hit wonder kind of artist. The process will be observed by the operational dynamics of the profession. The queue will keep you steady, moving slowly but surely. In the manner in which the legal profession is mature, some are hired and paid on the basis of being here longer.
In some professions, you can bring a new invention, then become a genius or a superman. In the legal profession, all the pro formas and precedents are already archived. You cannot invent a summons or compose a new affidavit. The legal profession is superimposed and structured for any individual who wishes to be creative simply to move forward faster.
The procedure has been established and entrenched. The legal profession has reached a postmodern state and fate. Postmodernism says there is nothing new under the sun. Postmodernism is synonymous with the words of the ancient king of Israel, King Solomon, in his ecclesiastical and proverbial writings, emphatically stating in biblical quotation that, “There is nothing new under the sun.” The legal profession has reached that phase and place.
Passion and patience are the strategy
If you join any old institution or establishment, you must just be ceremonious and figurative in nature, simply play along by the book. Playing by the book is not an implication of being robotic in nature and zombified in approach. It simply means excelling within the framework and accessing the space granted to your performance. Do well in what you are doing in the profession.
At times, one can be tempted to build a castle in the air. The truth is that, if you have no passion and patience, studying LLB and being an LLB degree holder will be among the harshest pains and most brutal realities to fathom. You can be locked in a corner or be stressed and pressured because it is not happening as per your imagined growth process.
The name of the game is passion and patience. You need to apply so much energy for too long to crack it. You will be judged by your endless daily efforts. If your strength to make efforts daily dies off or disappears faster, you are likely to give up.
Passion and patience are the only strategies to conquer the long and old profession.
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