khaoz wrote:
Funny how people who ARE the Federal government like to preach about "big government" while they take home $170,000 + per year while pretty much sitting on their ass all day.
Where I work, having a M.S. or PhD technical degree, or M.D. is common. Also, many of them also have law degrees.
It is expensive to keep employees who have say a M.S. in electrical engineering (a hot area), and a law degree.
At the big firms,
starting salaries for patent attorneys in the private industry are 160,000-185,000 / yr.
Many quit the government, because it is a semi-dead-end job, and the pay of $150,000 / yr on average - after 8-12 years - is just too low.
I have functional problems from my ASD, otherwise I would likely quit too.
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10 May 2014, 4:18 pm
