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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by _rpd on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:38PM (#15358565)
> No one is telling the students that they're spending 4-12 years getting an education which is worth less than what they're paying for it.

I think that some fault lies with unrealistic expectations. Every liberal arts graduate student knows that there are only enough positions for 1 in 10 of their cohort, but each firmly believes that they will be in that 10%. Worse, many who are talented enough to actually be in that 10% self-sabotage by being unwilling to move to locations they perceive as less than desirable.

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by arkades on Thursday September 28, 2017 @02:09PM (#15359461)
The schools exacerbate this because the professors themselves have such survivorship bias.

I once had a professor try to convince me to go for a bio phd. I objected that there's only one TT position for every 20 graduates. His response was that it's just about hard work - look at him, for example!

He didn't get my point; I didn't get the phd.

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Re:Facing poverty, academics turn to sex work and sleeping i... by JustAnotherPat on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:45PM (#15358626)
It's a risk worth taking if you think you're too good to work in private industry. Almost all liberal arts phds i know couldn't stomach working for the man.
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