Career paths?

[slow99]

This thought has been lingering in the back of my mind lately. I like looking at numbers, especially when there is a $ sign in front of it.

Your academic record will have to be top-notch. My boss keeps a stack of over 40 resumes of the guys he interviewed for my spot before I got the offer. All of them Harvard, Wharton, U of Chicago, Stanford, etc MBAs. You'll have to do the CFA (another 3-4 years and well over 1000 hours of study time on your own) as well, and be willing to work ridiculous hours. If you really love it though, the hours aren't too bad. There's no way anyone could do the job though, if they didn't love the work.

[Real Estate Nate]

Whatever you decide, work for yourself...not for someone else.

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[Slowhand]

CFA Level 3 is this Saturday. Uggghh...

Fuck that. Good luck, man. But really, fuck that.

Not only that, but by the time he graduates $60,000 isn't going to be as much as it is worth now.

The difference over four years is (barring catastrophically abnormal events) going to be negligible at best.

[Treasure Chest]

My ex had a similar struggle when it came to college. His dad told him to work as a mechanic while he went to a junior college and took his basics. After two years of working on everyone else's cars and never having time or energy for his own, he decided to go into mechanical engineering. Taking that route, he'd at least have the option to go into automotive engineering.

When your hobby becomes your job, it tends to stop being enjoyable.

[mustangguy289]

Whatever you decide, work for yourself...not for someone else.

Ya, because benefits sucks.

[bcoop]

Ya, because benefits sucks.

Having benefits doesn't outweigh the downfalls of making someone else rich. Really?

[Grape]

I've yet to see a benifit insurance policy from an employer that was better and cheaper than my own....

[Denny]

Not like one can't make up the difference an employer covers... sometimes solely on the fact that you don't have to make sure you send the proper TPS report to seven bosses.

[broke again]

Kids that are pro's at test taking and making themselves look good can get into law school, go through it, graduate and are still seriously lacking in common sense and non-school related intelligence. They are educated idiots. Often times they won't specialize and graduate with a general law degree and are set loose into a heavily crowded market trying to find other general positions.

When did they start giving anything but "general law degrees"? When i went to school there was no such a "specialized degree". You got your JD and that was all.

[Grape]

Not like one can't make up the difference an employer covers... sometimes solely on the fact that you don't have to make sure you send the proper TPS report to seven bosses.

why would 7 people need throttle positon sensor information?

[Denny]

Office Space

[Sean88gt]

When did they start giving anything but "general law degrees"? When i went to school there was no such a "specialized degree". You got your JD and that was all.

I'm not sure if it is listed as a different JD. But they do have specializations at most schools.

[Silverback]

by the time Sean gets his law degree he'll be the perfect age to represent all the other reitrement home residents, he'll be living with, on their mistreatment.

[broke again]

I'm not sure if it is listed as a different JD. But they do have specializations at most schools.

The only way that i am aware that a graduate can hold him/herself out to be a specialist in a field is to obtain a LL.M. (which is a masters in law). It requires two additional years of law school on top of the three year law school program.