Comment on Math and Physics Majors
Rolando@lemmy.world 7 months agodoing fairly straightforward finance programming shit that scares people.
The reason it’s straightforward to you and scary to others is because you have a PhD. Even if it’s not in finance, you gained abilities in reading documents, extracting useful information, integrating knowledge, teaching yourself skills, building tools, and generating reports. To most people, those are difficult things.
Liz@midwest.social 7 months ago
If only there was a way these people could teach themselves these skills, even without access to a doctorate program!
Rolando@lemmy.world 7 months ago
People absolutely can. It’s just a lot easier when you have guidance from an expert advisor, multiple peers to help you out, and an established pathway to focus several years of your life on doing so.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To be clear, my PhD advisor was a hindrance to my work and my life. And 1/3 of my entering class left without degrees. Not atypical.
Rolando@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’m sorry to hear that. I’m glad that you survived it though.