In general, the supply of any PhD is also going way up; the old man always tells me about how, in the old days, in the hard sciences you were given four years (and maaaybe five) to get your **** together and publish enough to get a PhD (i.e. there was a non-trivial chance of failing out, or whatever you want to call it, before earning your degree). Now, partially because we're a more entitled generation and partly because professors use graduate students as indentured servants, the average time to a PhD in biology is probably over 7 years (it was approaching it the last I checked), and there are many more candidates then there were 40 years ago. I would have considered going that route, but the chance of being 31 or 32 after a postdoc and just beginning to earn a non-third world wage was a bit too much to handle (plus I was burned out of school).

I'm currently finishing up a master's and trying to keep up with my professional development, and it's worked out pretty well so far (hopefuly it will continue).

I basically agree, but it's not like Tampa U College of Law or whatever opening up really effects things much at the top.

Definitely wouldn't recommend Law
school to anyone unless they are going HYS.
You won't get hired by the top firms, you won't have respect from your peers, it's just not a good idea.
You could be the next great lawyer, but if you don't go to a top school you'll never get the chance to show it.
If I Hadn't had the chance at HYS I would not have gone to law school.

DT - what do you do again? Something that involves managing/hiring/owning a something company that something something metal?

Everyone should guess what I majored in. Although I probably have mentioned it several times.

I work now as Head of Accounts at a small custom web design/development company.

Urinal cake delivery systems

Econ?

You definitely didn't major in squats (awww snap!)

BtM - Lol how I wish. Wait....

DW - Great guess - I thought I would when I started college, but no. And yeah, definitely not squats. Or bench/OHP/or probably DL for that matter, .

Basically you are correct. Specifically, what I do at Initech is I take the specifications from the customer and bring them down to the software engineers.

Yugo, I don't know what your major was, but I would guess that you spent a bit of time on traps in college.

I got a great legal education. Didn't want to practice law but got pressured into big law. Hated life. Opened small shop in rural area, set my own hours, it still kinda sucks but its way better than 70+ hours biglaw job.

I'm currently working on transitioning only to jobs I like with people I like. Someday I might go to massage therapy school so I can hurt the people I like.

I'm going to guess bioengineering, based on your love for the transgenders.

That has a few shreds of truth woven between the back injury inducing horrible advice. Please dont ever twist or flex your low back doing ab exercises. There are a lot of safe ways to work the obliques without twisting the low back.

Please don't ever call it a "low back."

Started to multi quote, gave up after seeing 3459348593458 new posts. Holy ****, slow down bros. Applause.gif to AIOT for solid gif post.

Its such a scame.

Average age of post-docs i know: 36
Average length of post-doc (so far): 7 years
Average length of PhD: still about the same, but that's just because if you need to stay longer they graduate you, change you to post-doc status but keep you around until you've actually done enough to graduate.

There is plenty of work for biology trained people in industry, but at the PhD level the jobs get very specific, so unlucky if you don't have that exact set of skills. Law school looking attractive.

Spelling & grammar nits itt.

Where does the metal figure in?

Did meet fiancee in college. She has nice, feminine traps imo. So story checks out.

But otherwise, hurr hurr.

Hurr hurr. And yeah, not what I majored in anyway.

First time LC thread has gotten good this month imo. Still waiting a writeup from JF for last month - the thread probably just never got off to the proper start without it.

I agree that law school is not a good idea at the moment and in all likelihood is a rather poor investment in yourself given the over-saturated market and I think that will remain the case for the foreseeable future. I wouldn't recommend anyone go to law school right now unless they can get into one of the top schools or get a free ride from a very solid regional school.

Having said that, the above is complete and utter nonsense. You'll never get a chance to be a great lawyer unless you go HYS? Huh? You don't have to go to HYS to be a good lawyer. You don't need to work for a top firm to be a great lawyer. I know plenty of excellent lawyers who never practiced in large firms and never attended a top 14 school, yet still manage to garner respect from their peers, make **** tons of money, work on high stakes cases, and have demonstrated themselves to be top notch advocates. It's all doable, but just a lot more difficult to do now than it was ~10 years ago and far more risky.

It's Thursday. We all have the gym day off.

I refuse to be part of the mainstream and train Tue/Th/Sat/(Sun). Rebel WITH a cause.

But then you have to lift after Friday night binge drinking...?

I'll be honest with you, I love his music. I do. I'm a Michael Bolton fan. For my money, I don't know if it gets any better than when he sings "When a Man Loves a Woman".

True nomzying involves a glass or two of fine wine. This isn't a frat man, there are rules in Norway's nomzie circles.