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Re:What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD by PopePompus on Monday August 27, 2018 @10:36PM (#17856228)
You should not go into a PhD program in any field if you're in it for the money. This is because your department will have at least a few grad students who are in it for the love of the field, and they will work insane hours. They will have no life, and will be fine with that. They will be nearly broke and will be fine with that. You will be in competition with those people (for thesis advisors, access to equipment, grants, etc) and you will have a very miserable experience.
Re:What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD by gaius on Tuesday August 28, 2018 @02:56AM (#17857009)
Ironically this is even true in investment banking. If you don’t love making deals above all else, you will never even make it to the point of being able to make the big money deals, you will wash out in the first few years.