Median income of $102,000 means half of all practising lawyers make less than $102,000 while half make more. Most of the ones who make more than the median are so-called "BigLaw" attorneys, where the associates make $160K to start, the junior partners $400-500K, and the senior partners well over a million each. Speaking as a lawyer in a smallish "BigLaw" practice, who makes considerably more than the median income (but still not really a "lot" of money, especially not in the Bay Area), but relatively less than most other junior partners in my position (due to all the "personal" time I take) I know that law can be a way to become affluent.

But it's by no means guaranteed. And to be honest with you, a lot of the money I earn through my work gets spent on drugs, sluts and whores. If I could make sluts and whores my job, I could easily get by on just $100K for the other expenses of my life.

I would probably advise a younger version of myself, with my obsessions, to man up and become a pornographer instead of living a secret life.