/sci/ - Science & Math

>>12589091
I wasted my 20s being an indentured servant to professors who know jack shit about how the world works outside their ivory towers. Applying to jobs lately, I only just realized the hole I dug myself in and all the little things I need to learn/do if I want a job I'm not extremely overqualified for. Fortunately I have a couple years left, so I'll probably manage. A lot of grad students in my department make it all the way to their final year before reality hits them and they have to scramble just to get a shitty teaching/code monkey job. Grad school is like that, it puts you in a bubble if you're not careful.

>I’m currently waiting to hear back from schools for fall 2021.
Some advice for you:

-I highly recommend getting your masters and getting out. A PhD is 4 more years of your time and only marginally better.
-Take some "applied" courses: probability, machine learning, data analytics, etc. They're not as "sexy" as the main graduate sequences (many professors you meet will look down on them), but they're literally the only ones that matter after you graduate.
-Lrn2code; it's not just a meme, any job worth having is going to require you to code.
-Network as much as you can, even outside your department.
-ABSOLUTELY DO NOT plan on doing a postdoc.