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If you come from a demographic making the lowest amount of money e.g. 41k/yr per the article would it not make sense to do a career with a more immediate reward
by rayhendricks 6y ago
If you come from a demographic making the lowest amount of money e.g. 41k/yr per the article would it not make sense to do a career with a more immediate reward? PhD is for people with trust funds who can afford to take a 50-60k postdoctoral position in a vhcol city due to a trust fund paying out at least 50-60k per year.
- fastball 6y agoI know dozens of PhDs. Literally not a single one of them has a trust fund. I know probably about a dozen people with trust funds. None of them got anything past a Masters (but most did actually go for the masters). Obviously this is anecdotal, but in my experience your assertion is not true. If you have stats to back it up though I'd be happy to see them.