masters/phd gives you a big portion of time and access to journal papers to really do the research. It's like a muscle you have to train, I'm not sure it's easi

masters/phd gives you a big portion of time and access to journal papers to really do the research. It's like a muscle you have to train, I'm not sure it's easily done while working full time. How much of your day can be spent reading journal papers? In my Masters degree I learned how to do proper academic research, literature reviews, paper writing, building up your body of knowledge from textbooks as the starting point to papers published in the past, to papers just being published now, and by that point you're at the cutting edge. By the time you finish a masters or PhD you should more or less know which academics around the world are working on your niche area and what they are publishing, and read all of their stuff. By the end of my masters I knew the ~10 people in the world who cared about my topic and had read all of their most recent papers.