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> In China, its considered a joke career. Is there a source for this or is more of a vibes thing?

• ecshafer 7mo ago
  source is my wife who spent the first 25 years of her life in China. So I guess vibes? But she was/is pretty academically rigorous, so I believe her. So I would caveat it as if you are a really good strong student in China, it would seem that you are much more likely to go into Engineering, Business, or Join the CCP. Its not an A student type of career, more of a B or C student.
• jjcc 7mo ago
  It's widely believed in Western society due to the language barrier to access Chinese social media. But it's not true , or only half true 30 years ago. I personally know 3 or 4 of my alumina abandoned their expertise of Optical Engineering to pursue Lawyer career 20 years ago and made big money. Another example is one of celebrity law professor (not lawyer though) who recently got involved in a controversy because of Epstein file. He shut down his “weibo" (a Chinese Twitter ) account. He also made tons of money. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo_Xiang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo_Xiang China moves very fast compare to the western society. Something true today might not be true 3 years later. Let alone half-truth 30 years ago.
  • AlecSchueler 7mo ago
    > It's widely believed in Western society due to the language barrier to access Chinese social media. > But it's not true Is it even widely believed in the west? I'm European and my idea of China is that it's the home of Confucianism and legalism and that bureaucracy, the state and the law are all taken seriously there.