Comment on School of hard knocks
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 18 hours agoDo you know anything about what the PhD situation is like in other countries?
Comment on School of hard knocks
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 18 hours agoDo you know anything about what the PhD situation is like in other countries?
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 17 hours ago
Not who you are replying to, but I’ve found that PhDs struggle with employment because they are overqualified and lack field experience. I am mentoring a post doc right now and he’s unbelievably smart, but he can’t land a job for love or money. It’s a hard go out there right now if you’re specialized like he is.
He is a chemical engineer with 10 years post doc. Does water treatment, pit water modeling, deals with mine tailings, contaminated soils, etc. I would love to rent his brain if I could.
sudoer777@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
That sucks. Various industries need academic research to function well and innovate, but I guess my country would rather spend all their money on blowing up families in the middle east and let the civilian job market collapse.