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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm a lawyer and work my tail off and don't make much more. Yet not one feels sorry for us.[/quote]

+1. Lawyer for 3 years, $60k, one week off per year and no retirement contribution. To contribute to the education discussion, though, DH makes $58k as a 5th year professor of English at a large public university (not in DC, we are in NC), which I also find pretty meh. [/quote]

Lawyer, Is your DH on the tenure track?  Have you considered changing career paths to teach secondary level Social Studies?  Or if your area of law is science-related, to teach Science?[/quote]

He is, he will be up for tenure after next academic year, but the salary pump is only $5k and there will only be one more salary bump after that. $58k was his starting salary, and they were upfront that there would only be two raises of 4-5K each.  :?  As an attorney at a small-ish firm, the more money I bring in, the more money I will make - but I also have small kids and care about my quality of life, so I'm expecting a slow incline on the work front (at least until kids are older). I put in my best when I'm there, but I'm not working crazy hours to make partner or $$$. I've thought about teaching and do know some lawyers who now teach Civics or Social Studies, and one who became a principal (he'd been a teacher for some years before practicing law) - in my region, though, I'd cap at about 50k salary for middle/high school teaching. I'm amazed that some are pulling 70k-100k, which is more than my husband will ever hope to make as a professor. I would absolutely become a teacher for $70k+/year.[/quote]

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