• Tachanka [comrade/them]
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    5 months ago

    to me, grad school, always sounded like going millions of dollars into debt for a small chance at a $200,000 year job where you die of stress after 5 years of working. Now, I'm not very good at math, but

    • quarrk [he/him]
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      5 months ago

      that’s true for lucrative fields. Physics isn’t particularly lucrative. Physics grad students are typically paid a small stipend to attend as research assistants.

      The real issue is that these positions are extremely underpaid, and postdocs have it even worse