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Doing mathematics and furthering human understanding is great. The problem is that no one wants to tell you how the sausage is made . It’s mainly on the backs o
by zitterbewegung 9y ago
Doing mathematics and furthering human understanding is great. The problem is that no one wants to tell you how the sausage is made . It’s mainly on the backs of graduate students that have no chance of being professors. The ones that know how to code go into competition with people that have Bachelors in CS and four years of work experience . The good ones can land a Data science job . The ones that can’t become adjuncts forever in some community college. There are fewer and fewer that can win this rich mans game .
- alphaalpha101 9y ago>It’s mainly on the backs of graduate students that have no chance of being professors. In my experience, the people that say this are people that tried to do postgraduate study but either failed there or failed to get a job afterwards because they just aren't good enough. There are many wildly different jobs you can get with a PhD in Mathematics, from programming jobs to data analysis jobs, from finance jobs to insurance jobs. And yes, the top few can go on to become an academic. It's ridiculous to expect that even half of successful mathematics PhD students will go on to become academics. If that were the case, mathematicians could only have one or two PhD students in their entire career or the sector would grow unsustainably quickly.