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Yeah, I am. It's sort of like stuff at stores where the price isn't listed: if you have to ask, a Ph. D. isn't for you.
by tych0 12y ago
Yeah, I am. It's sort of like stuff at stores where the price isn't listed: if you have to ask, a Ph. D. isn't for you.
- rdc12 12y agoNothing wrong with trying to make an informed decision
- emplynx 12y agoExactly. That's why I put this together.
- zzleeper 12y agoThe thing is, what you see while in school and in academia before deciding to do the PhD are the survivors. The ones who like the power play, the grant-writing, and possibly those more prone to Stockholm Effect from their PhD years. When deciding, you don't see the ones who flunked, who killed themselves, who lost years of their life for the PhD and went to the private sector. Even then, most people won't tell you "yes I did the PhD and it sucked".. you can't say that even after years because you will appear weak or unskilled. Instead, people oft say "it was a great learning experience, etc etc".
- Chronic29 12y agoThe same thing can be said about industry. All you hear about are the people who work at successful startups and top tech firms. You don't hear about the ones working at low paying fortune 500 companies as developers or IT.