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Interesting contrast to the recent wave of posts about how you should absolutely not go for academia in the current market of having 1 job spot for every 3 PhDs
by BadassFractal 8y ago
Interesting contrast to the recent wave of posts about how you should absolutely not go for academia in the current market of having 1 job spot for every 3 PhDs. What's one to make of this?
- currymj 8y ago80,000 Hours is a website made by members of a very particular subculture. The “prototypical” PhD they’re imagining is in computer science, probably with a focus on machine learning, probably at a highly-ranked school, by someone who went to a highly-ranked undergrad. Job prospects are relatively good. Pay is bad but industry internships during summer can compensate. Academic jobs are not quite as scarce, and R&D jobs in industry are plentiful. There is not an air of failure or taboo about moving on from academia after the degree. The calculation on a PhD is very different compared to most other fields, and certainly compared to humanities PhDs (which actually charge money to attend!)
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- gil_rutter 8y agoThis, also their audience is people trying to optimise for improving the world rather than making money.
- aaronwalsman 8y agoDon't get a PhD because you think it will be good for random job opportunities. Get a PhD because you really want to spend a lot of time researching X very deeply.
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