> changes of getting professor-ship, tenure, or even a post-doc is close to nil What an extreme exaggeration. Yes academia is competitive, yes tenure is hard t

> changes of getting professor-ship, tenure, or even a post-doc is close to nil What an extreme exaggeration. Yes academia is competitive, yes tenure is hard to get (obviously). But the chance is not "close to nil" for that at all, and it's certainly not "close to nil" for a postdoc lol. > getting a job after PhD may also be very hard. you would be very over-qualified, likely huge ego, and very narrow skillset in your domain, that is likely lagging behind industry. managerial (or even just "work at corporate") skills will be lacking. unemployment of PhDs is wildly high, even higher than if you did not do PhD. This is just not true x) There are no numbers where PhDs have worse unemployment than grads. Conversely, it does open a lot of doors for industry jobs (think ML, quant finance, to name a few)