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somethingp@lemmy.world 5 months agoYeah but there used to be hope for affording a house after you finished and got into a tenure track position. But now there are barely any tenure track positions and even those don’t always pay enough for a house
HubertManne@kbin.social 5 months ago
oh I know it. I was in a phd program in 95/96 and back then was grand times compared to now but one reason I gave up in my first year was a position opened up and the average resume had 7 years post doc experience and one guy had 12. That combined with no one graduating before 5 years anymore (used to be 4) and 6 not being uncommon and there was a guy in our program defending on year 7. So 6+7 is 13 added to 22 and you get 35 when you are starting your career because now you have to establish your lab and publish or perish. ugh.
somethingp@lemmy.world 5 months ago
It’s kind of wild how many PhD positions there are for so few jobs. Maybe they should just start limiting how many PhDs can graduate in a year in the country to however many jobs there are. Create some sort of stability in the market and limit the number of young people wasting a 10+ years of their lives in a field where they may not be able to build a career. Similar to how med schools limit numbers to start proportional to the number of residency positions.