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Re:As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for cha... by supernewton on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @02:28PM (#31757184)
Yes, but in the time it takes to complete a PhD, the junior engineer can usually get promoted at least once. So you both end up in the same place, but the guy who went straight to industry was making 3x more than the PhD in the meantime.
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