Re:The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste...
by amichail on Saturday December 18, 2010 @01:37PM
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Money is not everything. A successful career as an indie developer can be a lot more rewarding than one in academia.
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Re:The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste...
by tjr on Saturday December 18, 2010 @02:30PM
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Sure. So maybe instead of trying to pattern our lives according to blog after blog and article after article, we should all do what we believe to be best for our own lives, be it spending more time in formal education, or be it dropping out, or be it starting a startup, or be it working for a huge company.
I think that society today needs people to do all of those things, and more. We all need to find our own place, and excel there.
Re:The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste...
by pjscott on Saturday December 18, 2010 @02:54PM
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Without those articles and blog posts and discussions, how are we supposed to find out what the various options are, and their relative benefits and drawbacks? "Finding out own place" doesn't just happen. (Except when it does. But relying on luck is a chancy proposition.)
Re:The disposable academic: Why doing a PhD is often a waste...
by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday December 22, 2010 @08:31AM
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>We all need to find our own place, and excel there.
I'd posit that writ large this won't actual create a functioning society. Some in society need to be content where they are because we need people to do the "dirty" jobs that others won't do.