fossilesqueM to Science MemesEnglish · 3 days agoI got into the wrong career lolimagemessage-square273fedilinkarrow-up1681arrow-down143
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minus-squareJaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·3 days agoUhh…do you people know anybody who’s been through a phd program? How would you rate their happiness from 1 to 10 while they were mid-phd program? If that crap isn’t going to deliver them the world, it’s gonna be a reeeeeal hard sell to get em to put up with it.
minus-squareagentlangdon@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·3 days agoThis. I dropped out of my computer science PhD to start at the bottom of the industry in my early thirties. If you don’t have a clear love of academia, a PhD is a clearly unrewarding slog.
minus-squarebouh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoAnd if you can earn a million each year as an alternative, why wouldn’t you go for it? I love science, but we live in a real world, not in a dream, and this real world decided that science wouldn’t be rewarding.
Uhh…do you people know anybody who’s been through a phd program? How would you rate their happiness from 1 to 10 while they were mid-phd program?
If that crap isn’t going to deliver them the world, it’s gonna be a reeeeeal hard sell to get em to put up with it.
This. I dropped out of my computer science PhD to start at the bottom of the industry in my early thirties.
If you don’t have a clear love of academia, a PhD is a clearly unrewarding slog.
And if you can earn a million each year as an alternative, why wouldn’t you go for it? I love science, but we live in a real world, not in a dream, and this real world decided that science wouldn’t be rewarding.