PhD, Law school or Job market?

You have approximately 2 years before the economic and monetary SHTF.
...better figure that in because the world around you is going to change drastically.
Your PhD/Masters isn't going to get you anywhere except more debt you won't be able to repay.
Hold off for a while.

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Last Edited by Useless Cookie Eater on 01/06/2015 05:30 PM

ok lol... scary shit there.

Law school with private practice in mind. Good luck!

Thanks for the advice!

Getting a job is the best decision.

A Ph.D. is prestigious, but has an enormous opportunity cost in the years you'll be studying and not earning a significant income. To make matters worse, the academic job market is very poor and many academic institutions are only hiring adjunct faculty.

Law School is shorter than a Ph.D. program, but you'll be going into a medical school-level debt for a degree that you may very well end up never using, since the legal sector is shrinking and many new graduate lawyers cannot find jobs that pay anywhere near enough to service their huge debt loads.

Taking a job and saving as much money as possible is the best strategy, especially given that there is little to no hope for any kind of economic recovery for a long time.

Screw prestige. You earn respect, not by placing a piece of paper on a wall and saying tah-dah now respect me. Prestige sounds like a type of Kia hybrid.

Lawyer? Enough of those a-holes already. Don't become one.

Do what you love doing. You got a Masters in Translation so you obviously enjoy it. get a Fed job and get good bennies, and ways to move up the ladder, and they will probably give you the best opportunities for a paid for PhD if you really want one.

And prestige....get with the right agency and it comes with the badge.

So get all three with some effort...go Federal.

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This sounds wise.

If and when shit start to slide here in Kanuk Land you will need still to survive... chances are there will be millions of overpaid people who won't be able to do jack.... Become the best at what you want to do ... don't follow the money or you go into a rat wheel ... when you do a stellar job the money comes all by itself...

I'll tell you this story, maybe it will help your decision.

Some years ago I won a full scholarship to a top university IT program. Of course I went. It was the earlier days of IT, I was in demand and had a great career as manager, director and executive. But in back of my mind always had an urge for law school.

Recently when I see our police state, rights being lost, citizens treated like cattle, I realize had I gone to law school I would have never been a corporate hack, I would have been independent and poor while I learned my craft but today I would have the experience and be making tons of money beating the crap out of police, cities etc in false arrest, deprivation of rights etc etc and loving every minute!

Follow your heart, it will work out.

FBI, CIA...

No reason for Ph.D to take longer than law school which is a juris doctorate. Only reason Ph.D take years is most are professional student types who have no interest in ever leaving school and getting a job, that just stay in school and take classes.

if you are male, consider getting a part time delivery job while living in your mom's basement.

Are you in debt from school loans? Get a job if you are.

I am debt free as of now.