>>13040949>>can i still get R&D style industry jobs with a PhD?whoops, meant "without"
>Still, big money seems important noweehhh after having slept on it, maybe i didnt have my priorities straight last night, i was kinda in a bad mood
>but doing a PhD while you are used to having no money is an advantage. Believe me, you cannot return to PhD student life after having tasted disposable income.i'll keep that in mind
>Worse, a PhD study is not compatible with marriage.ideally i want to wait til im 40 and marry someone half my age, so that works out
>Also when you get older your perspectives change and you might dwell on what could have been. Life is about more than money, a horrible cliche, sure, but experiences will take on a greater value as you get older. Moreso a postdoc in a faraway country.dont laugh but i'd really love to live in japan, and the more i think about living there the less i care about money
>Alternatively you can go for a high risk research heavy startup where the exit strategy is to be bought for obscene sums by a major company. This too is best done when you are young and happy with huge risks.that sounds fun, but its hard for me to think of 30 as "young", being 21, but im sure im being ridiculous
>Hopefully things will have settled within 4 - 5 years or so, the time it takes to complete a PhD.thats after a masters, yeah? i would be going straight from undergrad, and that's after the 2 more years i have left, which feels like an eternity desu. i'd probably be beginning my postdoc around 2030.
thanks for the effort post, brother. i keep having these bouts of doubt, sometimes from the doomers, sometimes from other things, but i keep inexplicably trying to justify a phd to myself. iunno, maybe i just wanna called doctor, maybe i think the only thing engineers do is wageslave and i wanna do something more exciting. iunno, im dumb, mans heart is an ocean. but thank you, anon
