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Originally Posted by blankall
This really cuts both ways. You're probably getting a lot of people with delusional expectations, because those are the only people entering certain types of employment.
When people actually break down the numbers for many professions like lawyer, accountant, etc.. they are so overwhelmingly bad, only a delusional person would ever pursue those careers. $80-100k/year to work 70ish hours a week and you're expected to do that for 5-10 years before seeing any kind of significant pay raise, and even then the partners in many of the firms are only making $140-180k.
You'd have to have a pretty big ego to look into that abyss and see yourself getting ahead.
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I think you are vastly under-estimating both grunt earnings and partner earnings from personal experience in a majority of both law and accounting firms... Especially in Calgary and especially in the past 2 years...