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submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)

For real. I made the life mistake of getting a PhD but managed to turn it into an asset by doing fairly straightforward finance programming shit that scares people.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (1 children)

doing fairly straightforward finance programming shit that scares people.

The reason it's straightforward to you and scary to others is because you have a PhD. Even if it's not in finance, you gained abilities in reading documents, extracting useful information, integrating knowledge, teaching yourself skills, building tools, and generating reports. To most people, those are difficult things.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If only there was a way these people could teach themselves these skills, even without access to a doctorate program!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

People absolutely can. It's just a lot easier when you have guidance from an expert advisor, multiple peers to help you out, and an established pathway to focus several years of your life on doing so.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

To be clear, my PhD “advisor” was a hindrance to my education, work, life, and career. I succeeded despite my ”advisor” and broke all contact upon my defense.

1/3 of my entering cohort left without degrees. Not atypical.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'm sorry to hear that. I'm glad that you survived it though.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Im an actuarie, so I can't say that I have problem finding job, but I prefer programming and every task I'm assigned I spend all the time necessary to do it in python.