Sorry, Kirk, but you probably won't be hiring me. The RAND institute determined that Americans are avoiding PhD degrees in science and engineering because othe

Sorry, Kirk, but you probably won't be hiring me. The RAND institute determined that Americans are avoiding PhD degrees in science and engineering because other professions pay better, offer more job security, and have vastly lower attrition rates[1]. I'll be happy to prescribe you antibiotics, straighten your kid's teeth, or send you a threatening letter that you violated my patent on interpreting data obtained through a web service, though, and I'll extort a lot more money out of you that way than you ever would have paid me to write code. - Elite American College Grad [1] http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html http://www.rand.org/pubs/issue_papers/IP241.html