/sci/ - Science & Math

A PhD is not the best choice unless you want to

>a.) do research *for someone else* (either for a university, an institution, a company etc.)

or

>b.) bragging rights

or

>c.) Networking

or

>d.) you just really want to do a PhD


I made an app during my math undergrad which made me some money. Used that money to make more software, which made me more money. Now I'm comfortably pulling in $300k-$350k per month from my software and other investments (real estate, stocks etc.), and it's pretty much all passive (the software makes like 90% of that money though). Never went beyond undergrad. Am currently 24.

I spend most of my time just doing math, working on whatever I'm interested in, without having to deal with anyone and their fucking bullshit (no office politics, no sucking some idiot's dick for grants and funds, no TA'ing or any other fucking running around).

And then there's you guys, slaving away for 80 hrs a week as a postdoc at age 32 for $33k/year.

Today I woke up at 10, did some math until around 2, went to the gym, longboarded to the beach and smoked a jay, went home and did some more math, and now I'm just gonna pass out high to trailerpark boys in my comfy 8000 sqft luxury-but-not-overly-so house.


So how would you rather live your life? What's important to you?