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Get out more. Elsewhere in the EU PhD is not paid, at best you're doing lectures all while without any paid time off, sick leave, and if you want a good laugh f
by arpa 4y ago
Get out more. Elsewhere in the EU PhD is not paid, at best you're doing lectures all while without any paid time off, sick leave, and if you want a good laugh from the universities' administrators, bring maternal leave up. The experience of my partner left me with a very bleak and medieval picture of the academia. And of course, if you're getting a research grant through the university, it comes as a loan of ~60-90k€ - you're expected to pay it back if your research is not as successful and, for example, you don't manage to publish enough articles in time.
Academia is a fucking joke.
- thevania 4y agosure if you can not handle it you tend to hate it i know a lot of guys that were not able to finish phd or even basic bachelor degrees because they were too "proud" to adapt and believed they do not need to adapt and can live a good enough life without it personally, in my organization i would never hire a person without at least a MSc for a non-research position and without a Phd for a research position - because to me the degree signifies they can adapt and will do what is necessary to accomplish the goals and won't quit on me when they will be pushed out of their comfort zone
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