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Bingo! It’s free country — you don’t like to be in academia, go somewhere else! It is also a free market — you get paid how much you are worth. Disclaimer: dr
by lsh123 9y ago
Bingo! It’s free country — you don’t like to be in academia, go somewhere else!
It is also a free market — you get paid how much you are worth.
Disclaimer: dropped out of PhD program many many years ago for this and other reasons. Don’t regret it for a second.
- scarecrowbob 9y agoI don't regret leaving either. I do wish that 24-year-old me had either enough wisdom (or perhaps, say, an ethical advisor) to skip getting into massive debt. I don't agree that folks get paid what they are worth, but that's probably a deeper disagreement than warrants discussion on this forum.
- mpcomplete 9y agoGoing in to academia is always on my mind because I would love to be on the cutting edge of research, but I can never justify leaving my job to work twice as hard and get paid 4x less. It's a shame that you need to be rich to continue your education past a point, but it just doesn't make sense to keep going.