@fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 5 days agoI got into the wrong career lolmander.xyzimagemessage-square265fedilinkarrow-up1668arrow-down143
arrow-up1625arrow-down1imageI got into the wrong career lolmander.xyz@fossilesque@mander.xyzM to Science Memes@mander.xyzEnglish • 5 days agomessage-square265fedilink
minus-squareagentlangdonlinkfedilinkEnglish17•5 days 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@bouh@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish7•5 days 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.