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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by klipt on Monday November 07, 2022 @10:34PM (#33515625)
The difference with software engineering is even if you "fail" you usually have a nice pile of money to show for it. If you drop out of a PhD all you have is some cool stories and obscure knowledge.
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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by ZephyrBlu on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:46PM (#33515947)
Definitely this. You're still very comfortable if you only end up as a Senior SWE.
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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by ModernMech on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @08:02AM (#33518519)
> all you have is some cool stories and obscure knowledge

As if obscure knowledge is worthless. Trading the opportunity to make money for obscure knowledge is the whole value proposition of a Ph.D.! If one doesn’t value obscure knowledge, yeah, a Ph.D. Might be a bad value proposition for that individual.

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