Used car salesman to lawyer....
....is that an upward career path?
Amazing how many members with college degrees from propaganda mills have come out of the woodwork on this thread.
Some car salesmen enjoy it greatly and do pretty well. I didn't enjoy it and would not have had a decent future in it. For me, it was most definitely "upward".
Not all colleges are propaganda mills. I never signed on to that notion...they're only mostly dead (to quote Miracle Max).