"If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there." - Lewis Carroll

We've heard the pharmacy school bit, and the getting rich bit. Now there's law school in the mix. And I, for one, encourage you, if that is truly your passion for life is to be wealthy. But I find a contradiction with all of the education you are pursuing and the desires to make money. Unless you got full scholarships to both pharmacy school and law school (which you might), you'll be drowning in student loans for years that you're pharmaceutical patent lawyer job won't be able to support. You will never get rich working for someone else. With large salaries comes tight strings. I, myself, am not rich, nor do I even know how much money would constitute being rich.

Learn these skills now, and master them over a lifetime:

1) Negotiate. It's not what you know, or even really who you know. It's what you negotiate.
2) Set goals and timelines, then take steps (even small ones) to attain them. Sacrifice all. Even cigars, if you really want that goal.
3) Pursue ideas and dreams. Even the wildest ones. Always. Don't listen to detractors, but know when to quit; accept defeat and move on when the time is right.

You really need some kind of talent to fall back on. What if you flunk out of pharmacy school? Then where do you go, or what do you do? Learn some kind of skill that makes you marketable while you are working on your wealth dreams.

Finally, money does not equal happiness. You won't ever find it there.