Halladie7

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by Halladie7 9y ago
As long as you're willing to accept the burdens of using FB as a panopticon. You get the blatant ads, the furtive ads, the manipulative filtering, the spam, the agit-prop. Ma Bell never barged in with a jingle when I used to call my gr
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by Halladie7 9y ago
There's definitely variation from company to company, but the gap isn't huge. Let's say the private research role got me $30k more than engineering. It would take at least 16 years to make up for the 5-6 I spend for a phd. L
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by Halladie7 9y ago
Especially when you consider compound interest. :)
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by Halladie7 9y ago
My tuition was fully paid and I got a $1600/mo stipend for being a dedicated research assistant. So the opportunity cost wasn't worth it when I discovered I'd be earning the same on either career path.
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by Halladie7 9y ago
No. Because I'd have gone to private industry anyway. Starting research and engineering salaries are roughly equivalent. Their respective progressions are about the same too. You'd only make more money if you founded a company an
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by Halladie7 9y ago
Grad school dropout here. I never wanted to be a professor. I have no interest in teaching. I just wanted to research. My degree would have been in CS/ML/NLP. When I realized that I would be out over half a million dollars in earn
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by Halladie7 9y ago
Bingo! Bootcamps are basically multiple month training sessions for interviews. Princeton Review for dev jobs. Regardless, I actually think this paradigm works for entry level jobs at most companies. You don't have to know anything fo
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by Halladie7 9y ago
At first glance it actually looks like a pretty good card in terms of rewards. If I didn't have 3 cards that provide basically the same rewards, I would get it. 4% on dining, 3% on travel and 2% on online purchases is very nice. The $1
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by Halladie7 9y ago
This is very interesting. Having been a graduate student who threw off the reins to do basically the same work in industry at 6-7x the compensation with better benefits I support them.
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by Halladie7 9y ago
I want this too, as an employee hoping to work with other qualified employees. We just extended an offer to a guy who wasn't well qualified for the role merely because he was the only candidate who requested a salary in the range for t