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I got into the wrong career lol (mander.xyz)
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[–] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

This. I dropped out of my computer science PhD to start at the bottom of the industry in my early thirties.

If you don't have a clear love of academia, a PhD is a clearly unrewarding slog.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago

    And if you can earn a million each year as an alternative, why wouldn't you go for it? I love science, but we live in a real world, not in a dream, and this real world decided that science wouldn't be rewarding.

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