• JaggedRobotPubes
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    233 days ago

    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.

    • agentlangdon
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      173 days ago

      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.

      • @bouh
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        73 days ago

        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.