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Before getting a PhD, you should consider that this might make you less qualified than someone holding a bachelors or masters degree. As the author states, aca
by bd_at_rivenhill 14y ago
Before getting a PhD, you should consider that this might make you less qualified than someone holding a bachelors or masters degree. As the author states, academia breaks you down and remakes you in its image, which will make it harder for potential employers to break you down and remake you in theirs, and they generally know that. Unless I was running a research lab, I would prefer to hire someone with a master level of education before a PhD unless the research topic involved building something.
- rmk2 14y agoI am already in the midst of it. Regardless, the PhD is not meant to build vocational skills. However, you usually find humanities PhDs in all walks of life, simply because they do teach you some things: In doing it, you are mostly on your own. No research lab, no research group, just you, a supervisor and maybe some discussion groups debating general topics and questions. What does a PhD entail? Self-sufficient, independent work. The hardest part of a humanities PhD are continuous motivation, time management, structure, reading and writing. Humanities PhDs are fundamentally different from science PhDs, they set people up differently, teach different skills and have different requirements.