Is it harder to become a lawyer or a college professor in humanities?

Darrel Stele: Eri is correct, college and university faculty positions are incredibly difficult to find right now. Even college and university librarian openings can easily draw 100 to 150 applications for an entry level tenure track position.

Tosha Tawney: If you're interested in law and being a professor, one idea is to major in accounting, and then look at law school or going on for a PhD in accounting. Business is one of the few fields where there are jobs for professors. If you can go to a strong PhD program, do good research, etc., it's your best chance at a professorship. Still no guarantees, though. Other options you can look at out of accounting is becoming a CPA, or an actuary, or going on for an MBA. You could double-major in philosophy, or else minor in it. Perhaps try accounting in your first term. See what you think about it, then decide. In fact, in your first term in college, take both the courses for accounting and those for philosophy....Show more!

Marcelle Vanlith: It's harder to become a professor, both because of the amount of work involved (7 years total for law, all classwork, 8-12 years total for a PhD in a humanities field, a great deal of original work is required) and because it's much harder to get a job as a professor; there are far more PhDs than there are jobs for them. Each job ad gets hundreds of qualified applicants.