This article does a good job explaining why I should stop saying "how is 100K good for a programmer with an MS when an English major right out of law school ear

This article does a good job explaining why I should stop saying "how is 100K good for a programmer with an MS when an English major right out of law school earns blah blah blah." I actually attended a top 5 law school (for one semester) before getting out and going to grad school in engineering instead. I agree with the statement that "thinking like a lawyer" is a bug, not a feature - it wasn't just that I didn't want to be a lawyer - I felt that getting wired like a lawyer would do actual damage to my brain and my character. I have friends (yes, they genuinely are still friends) who do often exhibit the lawyer tendencies identified in this post, far more often than my engineer and science friends do. Yes, there's pettiness, bluffing, and intellectual dishonesty in all fields. But these are traits that are encouraged by the culture of law, and discouraged by the culture of engineering.