Lawyers make their own work - having said that junior lawyers these days are not doing so well. The problem is scientists produce something that is valuable (k

Lawyers make their own work - having said that junior lawyers these days are not doing so well. The problem is scientists produce something that is valuable (knowledge), but this value is near impossible for them to capture. In my experience few scientist worry about the low rate of pay, but the total uncertainty of funding. Many would trade an even lower pay rate for some certainty that they would still have a job in a couple of years time.