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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A JD is a professional degree; one that specifically helps one to meet specific qualifications for career.  It is to prepare you to take a qualifying exam (the bar).  Similarly, an MD is a professional degree and a prerequisite to practicing medicine.

A PhD is an academic degree.  It is a credential that is not help one get a job, but rather an honor for completing a particular level of research. [b] A PhD + $5 will get you a cup of coffee.[/b]  No one gets a PhD for money.

-- PhD Physicist, and I have no regrets
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The same can be said about a JD.  There are so many people who thought that getting a JD and passing the bar would be an easy ticket to a high salary.  Instead you have thousands who got a JD and a huge load of debt and have not passed the bar.  You have thousands who passed the bar (some in more than one state) and aren't getting jobs.  You have tons who got a JD, passed the bar and are working in low salary jobs for non-profits, as public defenders, for small corporations with low pay, and as ambulance chasers getting clients wherever and however they can.

Those who succeed are much more visible, but there are many, many more people who come out with a JD who never actually go to practice law or if/when they do, do so for very mundane salaries and not the touted big law firm or corporate law salaries.[/quote]

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