Posted on 07/08/2012 2:26:24 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
“I believe law firms hire and send scientists and engineers to law school to help beef up their in-house knowledge and court expertise.”
Many companies encourage scientists and engineers to go to law school to then practice patent law for the company. Many patent attorneys are dual degreed. I have worked with company patent attorneys on patent applications of my own inventions.
Even more so now: look at the ads from proprietary trading companies-- they all want physics and engineering grads to do financial calculations.
If we hadn't farmed out all manufacturing and a lot of high tech work overseas because of idiotic macro economic policies, perhaps they could work in more productive fields.
The Left complains that the US has 'favored' the financial industry. In fact, it's just that the financial industry is the only one that hasn't been completely mauled by out of control taxes (corporate, state and local) and strangled by an exploding regulatory system.
Yup if you are over forty you are in serious trouble. That’s when you hope that you have a serious specialty that someone desperately needs (lasers,electro-optics,mixed signal IC design) or you try and figure out a business you can start for yourself
The article was about folks who want to spend their careers in academia. I have no sympathy for them. You most definitely do NOT need a PhD to get a good engineering job. In fact of you have more than a bachelor’s some places are not even going to talk to you.
The truth is that jobs like her dream job are too expensive. She wants a tenured position and a lab to tinker around in?
Get serious. There are plenty of jobs in industry, but you have to work and do what is valuable. Not play for pay.
Credentialism and politics both work hard to undermine merit.
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