So, up until now, I've talked a lot about law degrees. This is, however, a research project that includes business degrees and public health degrees in addition to legal degrees. So, why haven't I, for example, listed statistics for employment satisfaction or average work hours for scientists possessing business degrees?
There don't seem to be any.
I can, and tomorrow will, link articles regaling you with first-hand experience and anecdotes of life after business degree. I can tell you all about employment and hiring and what employers want and all sorts of fun things, but for hours worked and employment satisfaction, the field of "business" is far too diverse for me to find any meaningful statistics.
The main problem here is that, while it can be the center of someone's degree portfolio, often an MBA is taken in addition. Companies often pay for their employees to take business degrees before promoting them to management. A business degree is, unlike a legal degree, which fairly reliably sends people down the path of being a lawyer, less inclined toward any specific career choice and more toward the incredibly nebulous field of "business".
What's business? It could be management, marketing, human resources, investing, evaluation, accounting and so much more. An MBA gives one an incredibly broad skillset, hence its value to employers. But, this makes it very hard for me to find statistics about how happy scientists with an MBA are. There isn't a single career i can search, like I did with patent lawyer, and like I will do with health care administrator and epidemiologist, and that complicates things substantially.
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