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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by ntsplnkv2 on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:27PM (#17595217)
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.

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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by chrisseaton on Monday July 23, 2018 @03:28PM (#17595228)
Manchester, programming languages. Not superstar machine learning or anything like that.
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Re:Why some PhDs are quitting academia for unconventional jobs by xtracto on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @11:38AM (#17601988)
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.

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