Re: The "Grey Ceiling"

rrc wrote:
BMJ wrote:

What if the AMA, the College of Physicians and Surgeons, or whichever governing
body exists in a given jurisdiction, gets quite chummy with the medical corporations?


AMA is a physician's guild (pseudo-union). It's composed of
protectionist MDs.

And from what I've heard, they'd already helped in closing an
experimental 2 yr MD program for PhD holders. This clubhouse doesn't
fool around.

Here in Canada, the topic of a two-tiered health care system has been debated for years. It seems that now physicians are in favour of it, so maybe the corporations finally won. They certainly had enough support from certain politicians.

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In law, *big* law is a closed shop (ivy league/Chicago/Gtown) whereas
small law is still available for entrepreneurial types.

The same could be said about engineering, though smaller firms don't
have it easy.


I don't believe so because top engineers get run of the mill corp
salaried positions and smaller firms don't get the contracts like the
big dogs.

I've been in touch with enough smaller firms to know that many of them would dearly like to get the crumbs from the bigger ones but often fail.

I've always met MITers in dead end jobs in the backoffice of
a lame S&E company.

I spent most of my engineering career in industry in such jobs. Most of what I did could have been done by a technologist.

I can't say the same for Univ of Chicago Law grads.
In contrast, Big Law grads get great salaries, experience with name
clients, potential to make partner, and the firm (plus alma mater)
cachet to leave for a better 'specialist' job if their partnership
goals don't materialize (or even partnership in a smaller firm).

Still, many of the larger firms aren't hiring as much as they used to. In fact, some have been laying off lawyers.


Smaller firms, in a lesser degree, offer the average customer
(corporate or individual) problems but still has something which can
keep a person employed for a long time. Afterwards, all this experience
can lead to a nice self-employment stint w/o having to re-learn a new
tool/technology every two to three years or having to change one's
specializations (or generalizations).

That may vary with the type of law practiced. Tax law, for example, changes frequently, depending on what legislation will be enacted by governments.



On the other hand, with the EPC (engineering, procurement, and construction) firms,
when a major project ends, layoffs occur if there isn't another contract.


This is a story told by countless engineers.

Been there, suffered for it.



So, if one's a corporate workaholic, it makes sense to go this way than
in enduring rounds of getting passed over for promotion.

But the risk of standing in the dole queue increases.


I'd say medicine and law careers help to minimize one's dole queue
potential.


Medicine, definitely. Law might not be so secure any more. Even such things as the preparation of briefs can be farmed out to overseas contractors.
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