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To: Mark Brophy who wrote (3452)7/22/1998 4:49:00 AM
From: Mitchell Jones  Read Replies (2) of 10309
 
Without more definition,the comparison of Engineer vs Lawyer as a career path is difficult to discuss.

This url looks at the 50 hottest jobs thru the year 2005 and reaches a different conclusion than yours (if we keep the discussion in the computer related field of engineering):

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As you can see, starting salaries for lawyers are in the $58,000 range with an expected growth of 31% thru 2005. Computer engineers start at $70,000 with an expected growth of 112% in the same time frame.

In my cursory look at the question, I did find a survey of starting salaries by university that indicated Yale and Harvard grads approached the salaries you suggest,but the drop-off was steep and median was probably very close to survey above.

While money will always be a factor in career choice we all know that many other considerations enter the process and MANY of them are more important than money (imho).

Mitch
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