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What's with the recent influx of posts against higher education, or more in general, anti-education posts?
You're in the Science Memes comm. It's self-deprecating.
Around here, it's probably because people are deeply aware of all the problems and unaware of all the gains.
The neighbor's grass is always greener...
What are the gains?
Everyone I know with PhDs don't really get paid more for doing the same job(s) I do.
And some are in research so it's just a constant stress of continuing to get funding and stuff.
A PhD in engineering oriented industries will not get you more money unless you hit the jackpot (did some early LLM stuff for example).
You just gotta love the research.
Well, if they are doing the same jobs you are, then they aren't reaping any of the benefits.
They should be able to do some jobs that you aren't prepared for. Personally, I would say anybody not to do one unless they have an specific job in mind... Most people I know that did one while working are quite happy with the result.
if they are universities, they are doing mostly grants, on top of managing labs for students, and thier OWN LABs with graduates and desperate volunteers, and grant writing. no wonder they are surly people, at least more stressful stem lab. i had one one time he gets angry often, stemming from his native american heritage not being promised what is owed to his people, so it translate to reacting to the students. any talk of references, or looking for lab opportunities is met with hostility from it.
The majority of PhDs I work with (we do lab bench-level work) make work suck because they think they know more/better about the work we do and will not listen to anyone. Probably some ego thing or trying to justify their choice. A great litmus test is finding out what they think of grad school, if they say they hated it, they're usually pretty chill. If they liked it or indifferent then they'll usually be a pain.
Academia is absolutely fucked. The job market was already bad before Trump and he's certainly not helping
when indeed forums was around thats exactly what people claimed in threads, masters, maybe phd(rarely) led to extreme difficulty in the job searchs, and my own job searches were the same results.
they shut down the forums because of potential liablities from said companies on the site of threatening lawsuits, much like what glassdoor did. universities lacking clear communication with students on career development, like lab volunteering work, which is the most important part of the degree for STEM, its mostly treated like High school how many freshman students they can push through the system.
we have cls program in the west, because its lacking in other states, everyone wants to come to cali for said grad certificate, making it extremely competitive.
Found the grad student! Which is it bud, history or art?
Masters in bioinformatics, but I'd be proud to be on art or history, your comments only reflects the limitations of your own weak mind. It's super weird, and telling, that you decided to single out history and art.
probably a conservative, they always say useless degree like history and arts. they always whine about how useless they are, one asian one on youtube channel i used to follow before the pandemic was like that, because you chose PSYCHology you had no jobs. he shouldve know better(as per the subreddit of that channel) that its necessary for GRAD school for Psy-D or PHD, had a cousin that went for a PSY-D.
Lollllllll