Comment on I got into the wrong career lol

• Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And OnlyFans job is grueling fucking? 🤔

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Classical Electrodynamics by Jackson helped me feel like a jock in Calculus.

    Hitler meme that sums it up

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    • gramie@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That is one of the funniest things I have seen in a very long time!

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “Do I look like Feynman” is my favorite bit

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    • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Now I’m reading about Bessel functions on my weekend… how dare you.

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        the video is spherical Bessel functions

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    • brbposting@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Simple man me detrackers then clicks 🤗

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      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Wdym?

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• Deepus@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  As someone who didnt even pass their first year and dropped out, mind explaining whats involved in a PHD and why science ones are so grueling?

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  • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It’s basically just working for 6 years for not much pay while your friends who got jobs right out of undergrad are making at 3-5x as much.

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not only that, but all the political game involved in the academia is mental.

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      • helloworld55@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        And the work-life balance is attrocious.

        When I started, my advisor told me to not think of myself as an employee, but as a “researcher”. IE I don’t get to clock out, my life revolved around learning/reseaching

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    • Deepus@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But having the PHD makes up for it after right?

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      • nBodyProblem@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Generally no if we consider it from a financial perspective.

        I work in engineering with a masters, and I make more than people with only a bachelors. However, even with the masters pay bump I am unlikely to ever make enough extra money to make up for the financial losses I incurred in getting the degree. It’s only “worth it” financially if you work full time and have your company pay for the degree.

        PHDs make about the same amount of money and get about the same positions as someone with an only Masters. You get a PHD because you love studying and research enough to basically give up half of a decade of your life.

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      • Liz@midwest.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It really depends on the field. In some areas PhDs make less than bachelors.

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      • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s what they say but I haven’t finished mine yet so I can only hope

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  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Me earlier in the thread

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