Originally Posted by ultramarina
I know quite a few bright people whose situations are similar to ours. High IQ and good educations do not automatically equate to high income. I always wonder if anyone is tracking kids like ours, who have a great deal of social capital but are technically middle-class or below.

What matters is career track.

Corporate law was ravaged by the last recession and you need a massive book of business. Medicine allows you to be connected to the federal debt origination system.

I guess IT is a good solution, but it doesn't pay as much as a good medical specialty. If you are faced with the choice of being an internist/GP and going into IT, the economic choice that makes sense would be IT, so that gives medicine some of law's lottery element.