Law should be an undergraduate major you can switch out of when you don't like it, not something you have to invest three years and $150k into. The expense pushes people towards jobs that might not be the best fit for them. My friends doing public interest work, small law, or plaintiffs' work are almost uniformly happy. Most of my friends at large firms are counting the days until they can go in-house.

For my wife and I, there isn't anything we'd rather be doing. But we're probably in the minority on that, and frankly we had no idea we'd like the field so much when we signed up to make those tuition payments. We just got lucky. Maybe schools should just offer refunds.