Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs
by chrisseaton on Monday July 23, 2018 @02:22PM
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The UK, but our base stipend is similar to the US. Internships and part-time research contracts can make up your income to a workable level, and that applies in the US as well. I didn't earn a lot, but it was enough to get on with life like a normal person. I didn't eat dried ramen like the stereotype.
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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs
by ntsplnkv2 on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:27PM
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Ahh the UK where health insurance coverage is much easier to attain...
Where in the UK? What field? There are several important details you are leaving out.
Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs
by chrisseaton on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:28PM
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Manchester, programming languages. Not superstar machine learning or anything like that.
Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs
by xtracto on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:38AM
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Hey, I did a PhD in the University of Liverpool some 12 years ago. I had a scolarship from my home country, but had a blast in my 3.6 years in the UK.
I remember seeing colleagues from the UK who got a good stipend. I think in general in the UK doing a PHD was good at that time, specially because it usually lasts only 3 years.
Nevertheless, after spending other 4 years in academia, I turned to Industry and would never go back. Academia is broken at this point in time.