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I got into the wrong career lol (mander.xyz)

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[–] jaggedrobotpubes 23 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Uhh...do you people know anybody who's been through a phd program? How would you rate their happiness from 1 to 10 while they were mid-phd program?

If that crap isn't going to deliver them the world, it's gonna be a reeeeeal hard sell to get em to put up with it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This. I dropped out of my computer science PhD to start at the bottom of the industry in my early thirties.

If you don't have a clear love of academia, a PhD is a clearly unrewarding slog.

[–] bouh 7 points 3 days ago

And if you can earn a million each year as an alternative, why wouldn't you go for it? I love science, but we live in a real world, not in a dream, and this real world decided that science wouldn't be rewarding.