@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 4 days agoI got into the wrong career lolmander.xyzimagemessage-square249fedilinkarrow-up1650arrow-down142
arrow-up1608arrow-down1imageI got into the wrong career lolmander.xyz@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 4 days agomessage-square249fedilink
minus-squareagentlangdonlinkfedilinkEnglish17•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-square@bouhlinkEnglish7•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.
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.