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by berbc
4220 days ago
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> A career in academia would just require even more proving my worthiness. I do not think the industry will accept you without you regularly proving your worthiness. Of course, a PhD is something special so I understand anybody would not want that, but not for the reasons given in the article. Same for crazy ideas and being educated. I believe someone could have given roughly the same reasons for "Leaving X" because she's tired of doing the things that X requires. At least we learn about what doing a PhD entitles you to do, but as others have pointed out, this is quite a rude awakening. |
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Exactly. I left a physics PhD program after my first year because I couldn't stand the environment anymore, and went into software development for an established company. I'm still given "homework" and "exams", still judged on merit of my work, still proving my worthiness of my paycheck everyday. Luckily I had to work throughout undergrad and grad school to afford it, so I already had that knowledge going into my career, but it really sounds like the author of this article did not.