re: Non-Law jobs with a law degree

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I pretty strongly disagree with you about the education.

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Okay - you're still fairly young - you've completed your legal education - what areas do you think those skills would provide value? It's a very specific type of writing and research, although those skills are somewhat transferable. Some of the business associations (and perhaps even bankruptcy and tax, if you took those) might be helpful outside of a legal practice, but, I stand by my statement that a legal education is relatively worthless, outside the practice of law - particularly when you consider the time and money spent.

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But I would prefer to jump into a field I could see myself being in for the long term. And I'm not too sure that is law related.

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Which ties me back to my original point - you're not alone - in the mid-90s, about half my classmates were talking about doing something other than practice law. I still can't come up with more than a very small handful of jobs: legislative staff, perhaps federal law enforcement, etc., outside of actually being a practicing attorney, that the education and degree would have more than minimal value.

So, in my opinion, the 3 years would have been better spent doing what you wanted to do, long-term. Now, if you didn't/don't know what that is - I can see doing "something" for those 3 years, but an MBA would have had much broader application to a wide variety of situations, even though that degree is suffering from some dilution of value, as well (but nothing like what JDs have suffered over the past 30 years).