Fair points. My impression is that it’s actually just hard to get into those lines of work without substantial experience. US law school is also just structured to make getting traditional law jobs much easier than policy jobs. I also think it’s often prudent to model oneself as the median person in the reference class, even if there’s good reason to think that one is not. Finally, empirically, most EAs that I knew in law school did in fact end up working as traditional lawyers.
Fair points. My impression is that it’s actually just hard to get into those lines of work without substantial experience. US law school is also just structured to make getting traditional law jobs much easier than policy jobs. I also think it’s often prudent to model oneself as the median person in the reference class, even if there’s good reason to think that one is not. Finally, empirically, most EAs that I knew in law school did in fact end up working as traditional lawyers.
Thanks for the clarification!