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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Excuse me??? You think it's vastly unfair that a lawyer makes the same or less as a PhD? DH went to school for his masters (3 years, same as a JD. A lot of STEM masters aren't 2 year programs) THEN he got his PhD. No stipend because he went to night school after work. He is a GS-13 with no hope of ever being promoted to a GS14/15 because only managers can get the 14/15 slots and he doesn't want to manage (he actually wants to do the work that he got his PhD in). He's in a critical, hard to fill position. Pretty sure most people would think that his work is more important than the Solicitors who are reviewing my contracts at work.[/quote]

I'm sure your husband is very important and hardworking, but the fact is that the majority of people who get advanced degrees in STEM fields are not paying the same tuition as those in law school.  My husband has a PhDs in physics, and had no debt at all (and not because his family paid).  To a certain degree, it would make sense that if the entry costs to get into a profession are higher, the pay would be correspondingly higher.  I'm sorry you look down on lawyers, but if you don't like millions of dollars of taxpayer money going to claims from Boeing and L3, or having our national defense potentially disrupted due to bid protests, someone is going to have to review those contracts.[/quote]

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