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What a bad article. First, a humanities PhD has little relation (from a career and financial perspective) to a STEM PhD. So I don't understand why this link is
by throwaway1979 14y ago
What a bad article. First, a humanities PhD has little relation (from a career and financial perspective) to a STEM PhD. So I don't understand why this link is on Hacker News. Second, while I complain about the relatively-not-high compensation and limited opportunities available to CS PhDs, it isn't that bad if you graduated from a top 10-20 program. Lets stop it with the PhD bashing already.
- a CS PhD
- lallysingh 14y agoThe article is specifically about literature PhDs. I don't know why that isn't in the title here.
- throwaway1979 14y agoThe 3 people I know with lit PhDs had full-time jobs/careers and did the PhD for love of the subject rather than anything else. None of them expected to get a tenure-track faculty job - an adjunct teaching appointment at the local college from time to time was more in line with what these people wanted.
- pc86 14y agoDon't most community colleges accept a Master's for adjunct positions? Not that love of subject is a bad reason to get a PhD, but if the end goal is teaching a local course every now and then, you could presumably do that after you have the MS and (potentially) while pursuing the PhD, right?
- throwaway1979 14y agoTrue for community college. Universities typically prefer PhDs when they are hiring adjuncts. Also, to reiterate, for the lit PhD people I knew, the end goal was personal satisfaction - not a lucrative adjunct job :-p Some people just love their subject and share it with others. Teaching is a wonderful opportunity to do that.
- jseliger 14y agoTitle was too long; I already had to cut essential words. Sorry! Wasn't trying to mislead.
- tommorris 14y agoBecause it's so much more fun to slag someone off for failing to write the article to match the Hacker News headline...