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You should be discouraged from abandoning projects when hitting a wall. I’d advise against dropping out of PhD program if you don’t have a publication ready in
by f6v 3y ago
You should be discouraged from abandoning projects when hitting a wall. I’d advise against dropping out of PhD program if you don’t have a publication ready in second year. Also, there’re people who truly enjoy science and pay isn’t the deciding factor.
- vkou 3y ago> Also, there’re people who truly enjoy science and pay isn’t the deciding factor. If that's a good reason to keep pay low, why don't we apply this to the management and administrative class? Surely, we could find someone smart and capable who'd be happy to do an exec's or a director's job, without seven-figure pay as a consideration... Think of all the money we could return to shareholders, if we just made the directors subsist on prayers and ramen...
- bumby 3y ago>Surely, we could find someone smart and capable who'd be happy to do an exec's or a director's job, without seven-figure pay as a consideration... We do, depending on domain. Directors in a lot of social programs make low pay for what they deal with. Luckily, many are mission oriented rather than being motivated primarily by money.
- f6v 3y agoI don’t know how the pay is where you are. It’s fine in the country I live in.
- zen_1 3y agoThere are also people who truly enjoy science while wanting to provide for a family.