Will I End up Being a ‘Really Smart Sucker?’
I was getting exciting looking into grad school and thinking about getting back to studies, and then I started reading about the problem of PhD overproduction.
This opened up a whole can of worms and has consumed the better part of my Sunday. I’ve been reading about the problem of PhD over-production and about how tenure-track professor positions are decreasing by the year. I feel a bit stuck now, wondering if 8-10 years on a PhD (plus the thousands of dollars in loans and living on a shoe-string, delaying having children) is really all it’s cracked up to be if the job competition is so fierce. One blogger, a PhD herself, said she didn’t feel it was ethically right to encourage students to pursue PhD’s, knowing that it was such a high risk path.
Check out the article and let me know your thoughts.
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