• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    you also get half the salary, compared to the US

    Twice the salary for twice the work load isn’t more money.

    I had a friend who got a NY white shoe law job. He was earning $250k walking in the door. But he slept under his desk pulling 100 hour work weeks and was always terrified of being let go for underperforming.

    That’s not a better salary. That’s just 2.5 jobs earning $80k (which you can easily get with a JD pretty much anywhere).

    Once he realized that, he quit and landed a job with normal hours earning twice as much per hour worked.