And so on is doing a lot of work there. Most professional jobs, whether technical or more on the business side, have very little in the way of credentialing requirements beyond mostly having a strong preference for an undergrad degree. If anything, my impression is that a degree like an MBA is considered less essential for many jobs than it used to be.

Those jobs are a minority of white collar office jobs.

You pass the bar 1 time. Not every couple years.

> You pass the bar 1 time. Not every couple years.

You maintain a current law license, which requires having passed the bar once, continuing education requirements, and the absence of professional mal-, mis-, or non-feasance sufficient to lose that license. Taken together, the requirements are ongoing, though some individual elements are one-time.

In my state lawyers need 15 hours per year. If they are anything like my wife’s medical continuing education credits they are super easy to get because many of the things she already has to do for work count.

Not getting disbarred hardly counts as an ongoing requirement in all but the most meaningless sense of the word.

you do that while you are on the job, and generally i expect that the time and cost for that is covered by the current employer.

Sure, sorry in Portuguese, but there is always the option to use Google Translate,

https://www.ordemengenheiros.pt/pt/a-ordem/colegios-e-especi...

Problem is people calling themselves engineers without being one.

> Try to pass the bar or get through residency instead.

It would be wonderful to have an equivalente for computer science. You do it right after graduating, study for it once and you're done. Not leetcoding for 6 months every other year for life which is ridiculous waste of time.