And the kicker is that once you’re done you are sick of your field and end up doing something completely unrelated, where the fact that you even got that title goes unnoticed
Do a PhD, they said.
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omgitsaheadcrab@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 11 months ago
My partner did this. While studying you can see how political academia is, and the sort of people who do well in it.
Not that corporate work is any different lol
Ibaudia@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This was me with my MBA I got for human resources. Ended up in IT.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 11 months ago
…and no one evvver read it…
RootBeerGuy@discuss.tchncs.de 11 months ago
That’s not true! That’s not true at all!
I had a colleague proofread it and my PI also read it once… probably.
drail@fedia.io 11 months ago
My boss read the first chapter I turned in, decided I know what I am doing, gave me some basic feedback, and has completely checked out since then lol.
FinalRemix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
You had colleagues with the time to proofread yours?! Lucky…
weariedfae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thank god. I cannot verify the quality of that trash based on my mental state by the time it was over. I hope no one ever reads mine.
Or at least someday I hope to overcome the PTSD and be able to read it again. In an ideal world I’d like to release an updated version/errata.
Guys, I put GW and SW instead of GP and SP and it makes me die inside.
rustyfish@lemmy.world 11 months ago
A thesis is not there to be written. It is there to be stressed about.
KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
don’t worry guys, it’s ok, they just have to write the thesis, that’s it.
cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 11 months ago
lol bruh. I couldn’t get my job without my PhD because of bullshit elitism, but fuck if I give a damn about 1-electron transfers n shit. I make money by handling money and writing code.
hinterlufer@lemmy.world 11 months ago
As someone in an important position once said to me, having a PhD shows that you have frustration tolerance.
Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I don’t have an advanced degree but that’s higher education in general, isn’t it? Just a bunch of hoops to jump through for the sole purpose of proving that you’re willing and able to jump through hoops. And yet nobody has ever asked to see my diploma in 20+ years of working.
veganpizza69@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This angle would be akin to saying that a PhD degree is like having tattoos and other body modifications in your brain.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 11 months ago
I don’t understand why college students stress out so much over writing a single sentence. 🤷🏻♂️ ^/s^
rab@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I had coworker slip on ice and break her laptop containing the only copy of her 90% complete thesis
She spent an additional 10 grand sending it in for data recovery and was not successful in retrieving it
Trve story
Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 11 months ago
[deleted]Wasgaytsiedasan@feddit.de 11 months ago
One year for a master thesis? Don’t you do it in 5 months typically?
weariedfae@lemmy.world 11 months ago
(echoing) Master’s ooooouuuut- ooouuut- oouutt
Allero@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Unite, my dear, for soon we all, coming from all places on the globe, are gonna become…
MASTERS OF THE WORLD
RecluseRamble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
[deleted]Allero@lemmy.today 11 months ago
Doctors without borders then?..oh, name is taken
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Do what I did: never write it! I put as much on my resume but not once has an employer verified my education. I could put anything!
drail@fedia.io 11 months ago
I am half way done with mine, which means I only have 3/4 left to write, then I will be 90% done.
MrEff@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I never felt so more attacked, but also related to at the same time.