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Strongly agreed. The reality of doing a PhD is that you serve the interests of your advisor while living like a pauper. Hardly surprising people are finally rea
by Chance-Device 2y ago
Strongly agreed. The reality of doing a PhD is that you serve the interests of your advisor while living like a pauper. Hardly surprising people are finally realising that it’s usually not worth it. Just part of the needless proliferation of education.
- xanderlewis 2y agoBased on what? Do you have PhD? Have you any insight at all into what it might be like, or is this all just based on recycled tropes? > needless proliferation of education. Almost sounds Trumpian, except the word 'proliferation' is probably several syllables too long.
- Chance-Device 2y agoI was more or less enrolled in two and got cold feet each time for the same reasons the grandparent post says, it didn’t make financial sense, and my experience of research to date had not been stellar. Ironically, the first was ML back before ML was hot, so if I had done it I’d probably be in a very different position today. However the reasoning still stands. “Almost sounds Trumpian” lol
- xanderlewis 2y agoIf part of your criteria for evaluating whether or not a PhD is a good idea is ‘making financial sense’, then you’re doing it for the wrong reasons.