Girl needs money -- people don't seem to see that she has no career: law is uber competitive and the only firms that pay 'pay back your law school loans" salaries are corporate firms. THe bachelorette pays like, 100K?

Corporate firms have their pick of the top of their class of the top schools ( Stanford, Yale, Harvard in that order lol :). Andy was 26 on the bachelor, that means she just got out of her shitty law school, had no job prospects and just started working for the DA's office --this means tons of hours for crap pay and basically your first year out both learning the ropes of everything real they didn't teach you in law school while also trying not to be racist in Atlanta-- as you handle case after case of shitty urban drug, theft, and rape cases. It's not 'trial' it's just presenting opening indictiments to the jury members, the defense attorneys are not allowed to speak or cross examine, so ADAs just go through the motions while the court typist clacks away. Almost every case is an indictment since it's basically rigged (the old joke of you can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich -- many scholars agree it's become meaningless)

The ADAs are all reciting rote material like robots, because it's just a huge bureaucracy. Not to get off topic but it really kills your faith in any justice system when all the fellow jurors are middle-aged morons, some don't speak english, they don't want to be there, the lawyers don't want to be there, there is no judge, basically every person is a black dude and the jurors are scared to let anyone off.

If she chose the DA's office out of some idealistic passion to put people in jail, well that's great but then she wouldn't have gone on the show. She knew there was no turning back because you can't have a criminal law career after being on TV like that, no one would take you seriously ever again, and it's probably dangerous to be known if you get any good at your job.

So, in a weird way, maybe she's making a smart career choice for herself. She has a foot in the door and probably has more entertainment than practicing law experience by now if she wanted to make the shift.