[HLRoku]

I've known PhD friends that will straight up lie on their resumes when applying to places and only list that they're a masters student. I'm fairly sure this is legal since they technically did graduate with a master's degree.

Regardless, it really shows how screwed up things are that you have PhDs that have to do this in order to find work. These are STEM majors, mind you -- to any naysayers.

[loukrazy]

Getting a PhD should be for people who want to go into research or university level teaching, but there really aren't enough research / higher ed teaching jobs for the number of PhDs supplied. The reason for the oversupply is that US universities use PhDs as cheap teachers, meaning that they don't have to hire as many lecturers (who would be PhD graduates), meaning less jobs for PhDs once they graduate.

IMHO