@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 6 months agoI got into the wrong career lolmander.xyzimagemessage-square267fedilinkarrow-up1677
arrow-up1677imageI got into the wrong career lolmander.xyz@[email protected]M to Science [email protected]English • 6 months agomessage-square267fedilink
minus-squareagentlangdonlinkfedilinkEnglish17•6 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-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•6 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.