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Re:Ask HN: How do you moonlight (and career advice)? by tostitos1979 on Thursday November 02, 2017 @02:24PM (#15612913)
I agree with this comment. If you are near the end, just finish and get done with the PhD. Also .. take it from someone who is more than a decade into their professional career in CS research. Things change. I used to be able to crank out papers easily. Then, I got older and so did the field. All the easy stuff was gone. It is much harder to publish in my particular sub-field now. I tried expanding to include other related areas but it is also tough. I kinda wonder at what point to throw in the towel.
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Re:Ask HN: How do you moonlight (and career advice)? by tmoot on Thursday November 02, 2017 @05:15PM (#15614354)
Thanks for the response. One of the main reasons I'm unhappy with my work is I do the bare minimum to publish and submit. So far I've published 3 first author papers and somehow they've gotten into decent journals for my field.

I'd much rather have only published 1 paper with a more expansive coverage of that topic. I feel intellectually dishonest because I know the end game is adding an extra line to the grant application/progress report.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you moonlight (and career advice)? by tostitos1979 on Friday November 03, 2017 @02:01PM (#15621065)
Haha .. that has a name: MVP - minimal viable publication. I wouldn't feel bad about it. The main suggestion I'd give my younger self is to build expertise on a challenging topic. Hinton is a good example btw. He worked on Neural networks when it was a pariah topic. Look at him now. Of course, you can pick the wrong topic and get screwed (like the majority of folks) :-p
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Re:Ask HN: How do you moonlight (and career advice)? by eli_gottlieb on Saturday November 04, 2017 @12:26PM (#15625725)
> Thanks for the response. One of the main reasons I'm unhappy with my work is I do the bare minimum to publish and submit. So far I've published 3 first author papers and somehow they've gotten into decent journals for my field.

From the outside, that actually sounds like very good work.

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