braun@m10ux.UUCP (02/04/87)
Is it really more economically advantageous to be a lawyer rather than an engineer? If you study engineering in college and any good at it, you can rather easily get a high-paying job right after graduation, and if you want to go to grad school, you can be supported rather easily. On the other hand, you MUST go to law school to become a lawyer, and there is almost no way to avoid paying out of your pocket for it. After graduation, only the very best students in the class can get those well-known and high-paying Wall Street jobs, and many of the others end up working for Mall Lawyer companies (making MUCH less money). The difference is that engineering and science take a relatively unusual aptitude and/or talent, and to be a lawyer you need to be (only) fairly organized and intelligent. I.e., people go into science/engineering because it's what they like to do, while people become lawyers because it seems like a reasonable thing to do.
bpm@homxb.UUCP (02/05/87)
In article <152@m10ux.UUCP>, braun@m10ux.UUCP (MHx7079 mh) writes: > The difference is that engineering and science take a relatively > unusual aptitude and/or talent, and to be a lawyer you need > to be (only) fairly organized and intelligent. I.e., people > go into science/engineering because it's what they like > to do, while people become lawyers because it seems like a > reasonable thing to do. I hope you've got on your asbestos underwear :-)