Originally Posted by jack'smom
That is true about PhDs. There was an interesting thread here a few months ago about having a PhD in Chemistry- apparently that used to be a great job but now that has been largely outsourced to China/India/etc. and there is alot of job insecurity there.

This was kind of my point.

Even back in the late 1990s law looked like the better financial option than an engineering Ph.D.

If I could actually get into the highest tax bracket with a Ph.D. that would be kind of nice.