fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish · 4 months agoI got into the wrong career lolmander.xyzexternal-linkmessage-square271linkfedilinkarrow-up1683arrow-down141
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minus-squareagentlangdon@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·4 months agoThis. 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.
minus-squarebouh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·4 months agoAnd 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.
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.
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.