Keep in mind that the user discloses that they are only in their second year of a PhD program, yet is still making broad claims about the employability of a PhD

Keep in mind that the user discloses that they are only in their second year of a PhD program, yet is still making broad claims about the employability of a PhD recipient without citing any studies or statistics. >People who've done their PhDs and are now in the CRUD job market competing with 22-year-old new graduates, or working as untenured adjuncts or lecturers at colleges. The writer assumes that a PhD recipient earned the PhD to apply to entry-level programming positions or teaching, instead of a research and development role, a financial analyst job, a data science role, or anything else where a PhD is a clear advantage over a competing applicant who stopped at a Bachelor's/Master's. To cite real statistics that imply most PhDs aren't working in entry-level work, the National Science Foundation reported a median salary for Computer Science PhDs at about $120,000 USD per year. [0] >If you're truly talented—and by that I mean at the very top of your class, with multiple papers published as an undergrad, and it's clear that you're a gifted person who will almost certainly make a mark in your field as a researcher—a PhD might be a worthwhile investment. A bold claim that a PhD only "might" be worthwhile if you are at the top of your field as an undergraduate, followed by sentences that assert that the academic job market is competitive, ignoring the value of a PhD for industry work or non-monetary value. >Don't go to graduate school, unless you're an actual demonstrated genius, or you come from a silver spoon and can afford to spend 5-6 years doing something just because you think it's "adventurous" or "intellectually rewarding". To summarize the assertion: according to the writer, a PhD's value is only monetary, and the only reason why someone would want a PhD for a non-monetary reason is because they are privileged and come from a rich family. The arguments to support this are then heavily laden with emotional language and speculation, not even supported by personal experience (the little that is present consists of: the user is in their second year of a PhD, and they're envious that their peers who didn't choose to get a PhD are making more money at this stage in life). [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-seeking-ph-d-holders-look-to-life-outside-school-1465924943 https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-seeking-ph-d-holders-look-t...