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The question then becomes who do you even trust for advice? I always said never ask a first or second year PhD student lol.
by ramraj07 3y ago
The question then becomes who do you even trust for advice? I always said never ask a first or second year PhD student lol.
- nolamark 3y agoYou trust no one, and, at the same time, everyone. Determining what you are getting yourself into, based on data, not your imagination of the jobs based upon your undergrad experience, should be your first research project. If you aren't up for doing that research, evaluating the data you gather, and seeing the bias in the data, a research position probably not a good fit.
- airstrike 3y agoOnly take advice from people with whom you'd be willing to switch places.
- Hermitian909 3y agoIMO you want to distinguish between advice that is tactical and short term or strategic and long term. The best tactical advice tends to from people who were recently in a very similar position as you, had had approximately the same goal you have, and either achieved the goal or failed. You want a sample of both successes and failures. The less recent, the less useful the advice. The best strategic advice tends to be from people who have accomplished things you want to accomplish, regardless of time distance. Their tactical advice is less useful (because it is often dated), but the strategic advice tends to be better. You again need a large sample size to filter out noise.