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Frostbeard@lemmy.world āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
TBH if you attend 5 years at uni and donāt catch on how few professors there are to literally everyone else at the university perhaps your reasoning skills are not that great.
I mean I did 5 years with a master in thermodynamics (physical chemistry) and my section had 20 offices. Three had a professor in them.
Top sciencetists are is like top athlets. The same drive, dedication and forsaking other things to be best.
Sc00ter@lemmy.zip āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
True, but not everyone there is vying for an academic job. Especially like something in thermodynamics. I work in the aerospace industry and every engineer has at least a masters in a science/engineering field, a lot have PhD.
Frostbeard@lemmy.world āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
The OP laments how he did his PhD because he wanted an academic career, and how his PhD didnāt land him a professorship. Given how he must have spent 5 years at some institution or other, and have at least some success seeing how he got the PhD student position in the first place. My point was that how he in those 5 years didnāt figure out how hard it is to become a professor I find strange.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works āØ1ā© āØweekā© ago
Trying for academia turned me off of chemistry so hard, I even started to hate my later corporate job doing research.
Though it did get me into regulations and safety, so it all worked out fine. If things had been different, they would have been different, but academia was a massive disillusionment for me.
It sounds weird to say that doing research for someoneās increasing personal wealth was much more enjoyable for me, since the funding was just there, and I didnāt have to teach students or write grant proposals I never wanted to complete.