It is also the Colgan Air crash in Buffalo, the emergency landing in the Hudson, and myriad but highly publized small plane crashes over the past two years that are making people more flight weary than normal.

Coupled with the recession, it just makes one feel that airlines can't afford to ensure passenger safety the way they once did. They can't afford the most competent pilots and they can't afford to keep their plans well maintained.

I haven't done market research but that seems to be the growing perception of most people I know regarding air travel these days.

He was a rebound relationship following the death of your fiance.

Chalk it up to you and he had an experience. Be grateful for the comfort and affection he provided in your grief, in exchange for the babysitter services you provided during his prolonged adolescence.

Now, big sisters really shouldn't sleep with their little brothers, so please stop sleeping with this boy.

He may be using you in a lot of ways, but you are the person with more life experience and maturity. You are denying him the room and space he needs to grow up, and he doesn't have the right vocabularly to ask for it, or even an awareness that he needs it.

Let him go. You have each done the other person a favor by fulfilling a need that was particular to your lives for a given amount of time, but that time is now done and it is time for you both to move on to new chapters.

Best wishes.

There are more lucrative and fulfilling and interesting careers out there, which will offer you far more stability than being a lawyer will.

It is unfortunate that your father, with all of his money, did not help you defray the 100K of student loan debt you incurred as an undergraduate. Maybe he is not as rich as he seems, maybe he lives large for appearances' sake but is really living hand-to-mouth with large mortgage and expense payments?

You will probably go another 100K in debt to finance law school. So in 3 years, you will be 200K in debt. Will you earn the best grades in one of the best national law schools so that you can be certain to get a primo big city law firm job? If you can't guarantee that outcome (and you won't find out where you rank until sometime after your second year of law school begins)then you will struggle financially because you will be competing with large numbers of newly minted attorneys for low and mid-level salaried jobs. And even if you can grab the prize ring of a fancy big law job, do you really want to work tedious 80 hour weeks for the first three years of your career? Indentured servitude much?

My advice regarding your current debt-- consolidate under the William D. Ford Loan Repayment Program (google it). Opt for the income-contingent repayment option until you can get a little further in a career that you have enough money to make decent payments.

Then, you have the freedom to do a bunch of different exploratory jobs. Work as a paralegal in a large big city law firm to test whether you really want to pursue a law degree.

Brainstorm other career options given your undergraduate background. An MBA might be a faster and more cost-effective route to a well paid professional job. If you have any business training from a good undergraduate program, consider applying to an international consulting firm which will offer you good experience and a good salary, the opportunity to travel and taste a bit more of the work-a-day world.

If you were a liberal arts major, consider attending a post-baccalaureate program that will permit you to complete the pre-med science prerequisites that will give you a chance to attend medical school.

Don't let Cary talk you into law school with some namby-pamby believe in yourself bullshit.

In this case, your fears are well founded.

***No one who second-guesses the decision to attend law school should go.***

You are setting yourself up for a life of great unhappiness and disappointment, and each semester you attend law school you will become more indebted and more trapped, and quitting halfway and changing your mind will become an impossibility.