No. Once you have the degree you can try being a criminal defense attorney, and if you wind up not liking it you can do something else. Having a law degree can be beneficial in many fields or in a different type of law if criminal defense winds up not being what you expected.
Career paths often are winding roads and I once read a statistic that most people on average have three significant career changes in their life time. The pressure to pick exactly what job or career will suit us for the rest of our lives when we are 20 years old is unrealistic for most people. One, it’s hard to know, and two, being able to change as you change or circumstances change is a more realistic idea of a life career than picking one single career.
Don’t let fear stop you. Fear has cost me in my life. I didn’t realize how much until recently. Hesitating or not trying something because of fear I missed out on so much, and I’ll always have to live with what could have been. Try. If you hate it, you can do something else.
Graduating from school at any level is just simply a scary, stressful, and uncertain time. We graduate and embark on trying to get a new job in our field and learn the ropes and it’s precarious for most people.
A friend of mine worked as a lawyer, and then eventually she taught law. Now, she writes legal thrillers and makes so much money writing books. You never know where your experience will lead, and your education is part of your life experience.