Yep. I recently heard about someone who moved from CS into legislation describing a lawyer's work as "hacking the law".
Even better if you can work pro bono to assist free software projects in their quest for justice, as Eben Moglen proposed to a law student who was asking how he could help.
Makeshifts last the longest.
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I agree.
In fact, I believe that the profile for a good programmer and a good paralegal are parallel. If I'm not mistaken, the preferred MBTI scores are the same. (Meyers Briggs Type Indicator)
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Sorry, but you seem to be mistaken. According to this chart, the personalities that go into programming are ISTP, ISTJ, INTP and INTJ. (The fact that the key attributes are IT is probably just coincidence...) The personalities that like being a paralegal are ISFJ, ISTP and ESTJ. So ISTPs could be attracted both to programming and paralegals, but most programmers likely would not like being a paralegal and vice versa.
But that personality test is not destiny. For instance I'm an ENTP. As the chart and my experience indicate, extroverts of any kind are rare in programming. But we do exist. (Incidentally I should note that extroverted geeks are truly sad creatures. We want to be social but are oh so incapable of doing it properly. As I can testify from experience, when random people look interested in dumps of technical information, it is from a sense of morbid fascination. It is similar to how people can't resist staring at car wrecks...)
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