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Originally Posted by hokieian
Just out of curiosity, what does someone with your credentials do for a living (after obtaining the Ph.D., of course). I am assuming that it is not a law degree.
Why not just go to law school? It seems that you could do the same thing with a J.D. as a Ph.D. and make more monwy doing it.
(BTW, I am wishing I had gone to med school instead of grad school now that I am over 5 years into a Microbiology Ph.D. - just one more thing that I know now that I wish I had known then . . .)
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I guess the short answer is that I'm not in it for the money. I actually have deep personal reasonons for correcting an institutionalized procedure that tears apart the social fabric of our communities--most people plunk crime in this category (including many of my peers), but I refer to the criminal justice system, the way we incarcerate fellow human beings, and what we heap on their shoulders upon release while hoping they won't re-offend.
I'm lucky in the respect that I'm at an upper-tier research univsersity. So the profs expect that we will work for a place like RAND or some such think tank or other top tier research insitution. Of course, the money isn't toooo bad.
I think that some of use hold dual doctorates (a path I am considering). But, truth be told, some of my "qualifications" preclude me from practicing law in some states
, but they do make me very valuable in the field I chose.
But as a fellow grad student in the sciences, I suspect that you have or had an urge just to study things and add to the human knowledge pool. I guess don't tell me if that initial fire has been extinguished