Earning a PhD is about showing employers that you are capable of producing novel research results. You should earn a PhD because you are interested in deeply i

Earning a PhD is about showing employers that you are capable of producing novel research results. You should earn a PhD because you are interested in deeply investigating a research problem, and also because you are interested in pursuing a career in research despite the uncertainties that entails, particularly the competition for academic positions and the trend in industry away from unfettered research and toward business-driven research. If you cannot live with the uncertainty that a research career entails, and if you feel that earning a PhD is a relationship/sexual repellant, then you should consider another career path. Besides, a PhD didn’t stop Oppenheimer and Feynman.