getting a doctorate

Society Business and Career
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looks like people have a rather low opinion of a phD on gs and desis in general (topic started in chat)

before i say anythng let me clarify, i am not a phD nor am i pursuing one nor will i be getting one…a little too late for me to get into that now :smiley:

but, most of the people i look up to or have learnt the most from and those that have contributed the most to this world…are phDs

so I wanna know your opinion/???

why this idea that it’s not worth it, etc..

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Re: getting a doctorate

Because it isn't

Bill Gates
Steve Ballmer
Steve Jobs
Larry Elison
Michael Dell
Gabe Newell

..... only who can differentiate between an opinion and a joke can do PhD.

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Re: getting a doctorate

?

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The corporate world is no longer an academic world. Ph.D's are great, but a big corporation would rather hire a masters with 7 years of experience than a PhD with no experience. Only times PhD would help you in corporate world is if you are a masters with a full time job and you are doing a PhD on the side. But PhD being such a laborious program, very few attemps that while working fulltime.

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Re: getting a doctorate

but there is also an academic world, not just corporate...

there will always be a need for someone to teach the corporate world....and I think to be in academia you should need a phD?

and then it also depends on the subject matter

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And not only that, but all research facilities lean towards PhD guys. But the demand is less than what it was two decades ago

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Re: getting a doctorate

true, also has to do with funding i guess.

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Re: getting a doctorate

working in academia has become a rat race for funding, and pushing out papers. its kind of disgusting.

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Re: getting a doctorate

^trueeeeee