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10412940 No.10412940 [Reply] [Original]

For anyone here who has a PhD in some obscure and intellectually challenging topic, but who also lacks financial security from it, just intellectual maturity and stimulation, do you feel that it's a path worth following and that it's worth it overall? Do you feel more enlightened or more ignorant (due to expanded horizons that let you see more of what you don't know) as a result?

>> No.10412987

Not worth it in the vast majority of cases. If you like learning stuff, read a book. Don't enter a multi-year compliance test with high attrition rates, and where your real impact at best will be two sentences in a textbook.

>> No.10412994

More ignorant. You're right in that you realise how much you don't know.
Don't do a PhD in anything unless it's reaaally what gets you up in the morning.

>> No.10413003

>>10412994
Very true. These days I'm mostly disabusing junior colleagues on why their homebrewn theories DON'T work, and how little we can be certain about.