All things considered I'm in a relatively okay spot and I recognize that I'm immensely privileged in so many ways to be able to say that the time I traded for a PhD wasn't worth it, but there' s just so much shit out on the internet either romanticizing advanced education or outright misinforming prospective students that I feel compelled to talk about it pretty negatively. It's also really hard to see how deeply systemically rotten academia is until you're working in it.
Thank you but I'm not quite there. I'm 6ish months away (abd as of a few months ago) per my committee's timeline and I've already started a job in industry, so it's already gotten much greener. But yeah getting to this point has been a struggle and moving from academic lab work to essentially the same thing but in an industry where people go home at the end of the day instead of sometimes not at all has reduced my depression symptoms to their lightest since 2017!
It did not work out for me and is one of my greatest regrets.
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aw thank you :meow-hug:
All things considered I'm in a relatively okay spot and I recognize that I'm immensely privileged in so many ways to be able to say that the time I traded for a PhD wasn't worth it, but there' s just so much shit out on the internet either romanticizing advanced education or outright misinforming prospective students that I feel compelled to talk about it pretty negatively. It's also really hard to see how deeply systemically rotten academia is until you're working in it.
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Thank you but I'm not quite there. I'm 6ish months away (abd as of a few months ago) per my committee's timeline and I've already started a job in industry, so it's already gotten much greener. But yeah getting to this point has been a struggle and moving from academic lab work to essentially the same thing but in an industry where people go home at the end of the day instead of sometimes not at all has reduced my depression symptoms to their lightest since 2017!
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Thank you!
That is so cool and it sounds so much more rewarding than writing a paper that maybe 25 people read if the author's lucky.