Re:In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort
by infinite8s on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @01:46PM
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Not only your 30's, you also waste your 20's getting the PhD (which if you are lucky pays only slightly less than a postdoc). Two decades of lost opportunity costs really adds up.
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Re:In the Videogame Industry, Hiring People Is a Last Resort
by BeetleB on Tuesday April 11, 2017 @02:05PM
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As others have said, it's a personal judgment call. I wasted my 20's that way, and have no regrets. The PhD did not help my career one iota. But the journey was worth it, and I accept the price I paid (which is entering the job market a little older, and thus retiring a little older).
If someone wants to keep that up with postdocs, more power to them. I just observe that there are a lot more postdocs who regret their journey than those who stopped at PhD.