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"If you are a "failed" PhD? which is to say, you get your PhD and you fail to get a teaching gig? There are all sorts of other jobs who would love to have you."

"If you are a "failed" PhD? which is to say, you get your PhD and you fail to get a teaching gig? There are all sorts of other jobs who would love to have you." That might be true for some fields but not all. I am looking for a teaching gig with my phd and coming up with nothing. At this point I would love to find one of these other jobs that would love to hire me.

lsc 13y ago
>That might be true for some fields but not all. I am looking for a teaching gig with my phd and coming up with nothing. At this point I would love to find one of these other jobs that would love to hire me. what is your PhD in? I thought that all physics academics eventually ended up programming. I mean, i guess if you are an English major or an art major, that would seem a bit like plumbing, but eh, it pays the bills, and it's something that most smart people can figure out how to do. Amusingly, from what I've seen, fresh physics majors have more programming experience than fresh computer science majors. And way more linux/large scale systems experience. Most of them even know how to use basic tools like ssh; something you can't say of many CS grads. I've really got no real experience outside of the computer industry, so for all I know, everything everyone says about a PhD being a huge black mark is true in other industries, but it sure seems pretty unlikely. Seems like you could do an experiment, much like the 'Mr. Kim'[1] guy did about his name and gender; leave the PhD off your resume and see what happens. [1]http://whatwouldkingleonidasdo.tumblr.com/post/54989171152/how-i-discovered-gender-discrimination http://whatwouldkingleonidasdo.tumblr.com/post/54989171152/h...
- jccalhoun 13y ago
  I'm in the humanities. I could learn programming but I took the comment to mean that having a phd in a field would help getting a job. I don't think my phd would help to get a programming job, would it?
  - lsc 13y ago
    no, but having the sort of background that allows you to get a PhD probably would. I think this is the crux of my point. Generally speaking? if you have a PhD you are pretty bright, and come from an upper-middle class family, and have a certain level of togetherness and work ethic. You are gonna do okay.
onedev 13y ago
What field did you get a PhD in?
- jccalhoun 13y ago
  I'm in the humanities. My dissertation is an ethnography of video game players which could get me some job in the video game industry but I think it would be hard to find and not as easy as the original post indicated.

lsc 13y ago

>That might be true for some fields but not all. I am looking for a teaching gig with my phd and coming up with nothing. At this point I would love to find one of these other jobs that would love to hire me. what is your PhD in? I thought that all physics academics eventually ended up programming. I mean, i guess if you are an English major or an art major, that would seem a bit like plumbing, but eh, it pays the bills, and it's something that most smart people can figure out how to do. Amusingly, from what I've seen, fresh physics majors have more programming experience than fresh computer science majors. And way more linux/large scale systems experience. Most of them even know how to use basic tools like ssh; something you can't say of many CS grads. I've really got no real experience outside of the computer industry, so for all I know, everything everyone says about a PhD being a huge black mark is true in other industries, but it sure seems pretty unlikely. Seems like you could do an experiment, much like the 'Mr. Kim'[1] guy did about his name and gender; leave the PhD off your resume and see what happens. [1]http://whatwouldkingleonidasdo.tumblr.com/post/54989171152/how-i-discovered-gender-discrimination http://whatwouldkingleonidasdo.tumblr.com/post/54989171152/h...

jccalhoun 13y ago
I'm in the humanities. I could learn programming but I took the comment to mean that having a phd in a field would help getting a job. I don't think my phd would help to get a programming job, would it?
- lsc 13y ago
  no, but having the sort of background that allows you to get a PhD probably would. I think this is the crux of my point. Generally speaking? if you have a PhD you are pretty bright, and come from an upper-middle class family, and have a certain level of togetherness and work ethic. You are gonna do okay.

onedev 13y ago

What field did you get a PhD in?

jccalhoun 13y ago
I'm in the humanities. My dissertation is an ethnography of video game players which could get me some job in the video game industry but I think it would be hard to find and not as easy as the original post indicated.