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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

In some ways I understand it though. I'm sure the pecking order and bragging rights of being one of the only fans people that makes enough money to classify yourself in like the top 5% of income earners in America is probably more thrilling and exciting than having a PhD.

Plus, if she's going for her PhD she probably already has her master's degree so it's not like she gave up academia entirely without getting anything from it.

That being said, I still agree with you. If you were close enough to be in the program you might as well just finish it off. What's it going to do, stop you from posting your photos on only fans?

[–] jaggedrobotpubes 23 points 2 days ago (2 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 2 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 2 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.