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Both the value (and the experience) of getting a PhD is very field-specific... Out of curiosity, what field? Are you going into academia? I enjoyed my PhD (i
by dbecker 14y ago
Both the value (and the experience) of getting a PhD is very field-specific... Out of curiosity, what field? Are you going into academia?
I enjoyed my PhD (in economics)... but I think that's pretty rare. It was also less useful to me than 5 years of work-experience, since I didn't want to go into teaching.
- friggeri 14y agoI guess you are right. I won't be going into academia but will be doing research in the private sector — among other things because I didn't want to go into teaching. My PhD is originally in computer science but turned out to shift to quantitative sociology and social network analysis — with some heavy amounts of compsci.