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Before either decision

What does this field actually feel like?

You cannot sensibly answer “do I want to be a lawyer” at fifteen. Nobody can. But you can answer “is this the kind of question I would enjoy working out” — and that turns out to be the more useful question anyway.

Each set below is a handful of real questions from inside a field. Not careers advice, and not preparation. Read them and notice your own reaction: wanting to know the answers means something, and so does not wanting to.

Fields covered so far

FieldWhat the questions are aboutQuestions
Law Thirteen questions Indian teenagers actually run into. None of them are about careers. The point is not the answers — it is whether working them out sounds like a good afternoon or a dull one. That reaction tells you more about whether law suits you than any amount of reading about the profession. 13

More fields are coming. Medicine next, then the rest. The shape is deliberately the same each time, so a field that bores you is as informative as one that does not.

These pages are judgement, not data. Where a question has a legal or factual answer, that answer is checked against the primary text and cites it; where it has not been checked yet, the question is shown without an answer rather than with a guessed one.