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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by vkou on Monday November 07, 2022 @11:16PM (#33515812)
Most fields don't require all of the people working in them to be at the top of their field.

And the ones that do pay orders of magnitude more.

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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by nomadiccoder on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @12:22AM (#33516129)
Orders? Plural? This is not true. Youre likely to make 90 percentile
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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by vkou on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @01:04AM (#33516341)
Sorry, I suppose being a professional musician is one field with similar requirements for skill versus pay. Nobody's going to pay any money to a middle-quintile piano player, just like nobody in academia is going to pay any money to a freshly-minted middle-quintile PHD.
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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by dalbasal on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @02:23AM (#33516737)
Middle quintile?
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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by vkou on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:18AM (#33517399)
Someone in the middle 20% of competence at a skill or profession.
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Re:‘I don’t want this kind of life’: graduate students quest... by leereeves on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @04:18AM (#33517402)
In percentiles, 40% to 60%.
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