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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Yeah, but the posters do have a clue about the other paths she is looking into. So yeah, maybe we don't understand what she needs to do to get a job in the sciences. According to you, she needs a post doc. But she says she doesn't want to do a postdoc, so that path is pretty moot. She's looking at other paths that are a jump in a total different direction. [b]But since we know what those other directions require (like law), we're telling her she needs to think long and hard about spending $150k and busting her butt to do well in law school, only to have a job that requires tons of hours competing against a bunch of 26 year olds who don't have kids at home.[/b] So it doesn't really matter whether the people advising OP understand what it takes to get a job in her field - since she doesn't want to be in her field.[/quote]

Sure you know about most fields of law.  But certain sorts of patent law (patent prosecution) de facto require a PhD in a hard science these days, especially if you are working in the biotechnology area.  So in that case, yes she should think long and hard about incurring debt (although a lot of people go at night and have their firm pay), but competing against 26 year olds without kids is just not true.  Anyone who has a JD and PhD is at a minimum in their early 30s (and many are older because they worked in industry or as a postdoc for a few years before switching, or because they went part time which takes 5 years instead of 3), and most people have lives by that point.  While work-life balance is still an issue, your experiences are not necessarily what her experiences may be. You still don't know anything about the specific areas she is pivoting into[/quote]

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