Survey on the Economy

[Thenryb]

I just finished a postdoc and was considering trying for another postdoc with the hope of eventually getting a cushy job as a professor of chemistry somewhere. I was somewhat burned out anyway, but the fact that many universities have hiring freezes made me think all the more so academia isn't for me. I never really wanted to do industry work, but those jobs are getting scarcer anyway. So off to law school for me. Hide my head in the sand for 3 years and hopefully when I come out the economy will have improved.

Yet another person going to law school because he/she cannot think of what else to do. I guess it has always been that way, but I hope for your sake, you can figure out some alternative.