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Subject: RE: Lawyers (was Apple Payoff ... )
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Date: Wed, 4-Feb-87 10:37:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  4 10:37:51 1987
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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.