Accounting is the most lucrative non-science/engineering degree

[Kidlicious]

Originally posted by Japher
There was on hot ChemE that I remember, because I work with her now. She has a BA in economics and is a project manager makin 150k/year... I think stacking on degrees is the way to go

You're making me drool. I'll have two pretty soon.

[pchang]

When did she graduate? Did she go to Cal? If so, maybe she was one of the ones I went to school with.

[Japher]

I went to Davis, and so did she

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Asher

1) It makes no sense to clump undergrad and grad degrees together when talking about salary
2) It is missing things such as medicine and law, which are graduate degrees...

IN Canada your first degree-- The LLB is a BACHELOR of LAWS. It says so right on the degree on my wall -- Most lawyers thats all they have and you can go on to a masters or a doctorate.

Oh ,and a majority, but nowhere near all, law students have prior degrees.

In the states they seem to start you out with a JD or something IIRC and since the survey is American, their numbers would apply

[Flubber]

Tp follow up, getting a law degree takes between 3 and 7+ years education

It takes 3 years for those people in the "mature" category that can demonstrate life/business experience combined with a strong LSAT score to get in even if they have no college at all.

Others get in after 2 years of undergrad or 3 or 4.

Still others have a masters and a doctorate before they come. It varies widely.

[Flubber]

Oh and if people are going to get cute about how long a given degree takes, you need to factor in that some arts degrees are shorter and some engineering degrees longer into the picture

[Kidlicious]

I don't understand why people have to get a different degree to study law in the US.

[Flubber]

Originally posted by Kidicious
I don't understand why people have to get a different degree to study law in the US.

I don't know, I've never questioned it since my Canadian BACHELOR's law degree is very very marketable worldwide . . . perhaps because there is only something like 15 schools in the entire country that grant them.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
If you can't understand the idea behind a measurement then it's useless to discuss the measurement with you.

To be honest, I don't see how your link defined the concept of measurement at all.

Having two words per line isn't the greatest idea when you are trying to explain a concept

[Zylka]

WOW!!! Accounting is the non science, non math, no tech steal no city bribe/no great wall degree to beat this year!

And chem engineering thus defines the most LUCRATIVE and PRESTIGIOUS degree of them all; therefore the best thing to do in life for an educated person!

Outside of non-degree average salaries; being a drunken native working the oil rigs averages a good $55,000 for the first year.. while the fast paced life of a trade registered "Welder" nets a good $85k! On our same arbitrary and personally defined scale of what's worth what and when, these two suckers should easily be worth an ego-boasting $200,000 by the time anything else hits 6 figures!

What to look for in the future Of highest first year average salary (thus BEST ALL AROUND CAREER)? Well - analysts say 2006 is definitely looking good for "High school diploma lacking lumber mill worker", while "Cantonese guy who just moved to San Fransisco and forced a rear end collision to collect insurance claim" is hot on the rise for Q2/06!

Whatever YOUR field, and whatever your case.. just remember to boast now! Remember always: You make more than ANYONE else in the future!

[Agathon]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
To be fair, the average person in sciences is smarter than the average person taking an arts degree, so we'd theoretically have to control for that...

Well, you drag the science people down exponentially, so we have to control for that too.

[Agathon]

To be fair, I'd say that the average grad student in an old style Classics program (which is not me BTW) would own just about anyone else for the smarts required and the hard work.

There's a reason the Empire was built by Classicists.

[Asher]

Originally posted by GePap
And "the average" is not where anyone with ambition plans to be. What entertainers can make is much higher than what engineers can make, though enigneers have a much higher bottom than entertainers.

Are you kidding, the richest men in the world aren't entertainers.

Gorden Moore has more money than any entertainer...what was his profession?

[Agathon]

I have to laugh.

I'd rather die than be like Asher. I can barely imagine what it would like to be to live an unexamined life, devoid of real beauty, art or thought.

I guess he'll say he will think about that when he's playing Doom IV at some Caribbean resort.

I guess my response would be "so will I... I can't imagine anything worse – except perhaps attending a line dance."

[Asher]

Originally posted by Flubber
Oh and if people are going to get cute about how long a given degree takes, you need to factor in that some arts degrees are shorter and some engineering degrees longer into the picture

What engineering degrees take longer than 4 years?

And fine, a LLB is technically a "Bachelor or Laws" degree, but it's still not a real Bachelor's degree in that you can get it after high school with 4 years...