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> A PhD is effectively an apprenticeship towards becoming a tenure-track professor. No it's not, plenty of people get PhD with the goal of ending as a research
by JustFinishedBSG 9y ago
> A PhD is effectively an apprenticeship towards becoming a tenure-track professor.
No it's not, plenty of people get PhD with the goal of ending as a researcher in the industry.
- davidgay 9y agoOr, even, shockingly, because they enjoyed doing research, even if they then don't spend the rest of their life doing research in academia or industry.