There are many ways to fail. At this point though, I'm not sure there are any ways left to "succeed". If I were pressed for advice I'd say for someone to do what they think they would regret the least:-|.
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2024
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This is the mistake I made. I never found the thing I truly enjoy and so I ended up uneducated and working in a shitty factory... I should have just gone to school for CS (which i had absofucklutly no interest in) with my friend... Now that ship has sailed along with the WebDev stuff another friend is getting paid quite well from...
I never found the thing I enjoy, but I sure as hell worked a lot of jobs I hate.
For anyone reading this that's still young enough, fuck your passion, chase money. Money buys stability which brings happiness fuck this money doesn't buy happiness bullshit. Money buys your future.
At my uni I recently met two people in their mid 40s to 50 (eyeballing) who started mechanical engineering this year. It's never too late.
And a friend who's studying medicine said a group of people in their 50s started a year ago
The missing 5th panel would be "I'm tired of this shit. Fuck science and research. I'm going to look for a real job". And yes, I'm in that 5th panel. Unfortunately.
The 6th panel is locked away in the back of the lab in joker makeup.
Perhaps it was implied, by virtue of it being obviously true:-).
Yeah but maybe you discover something cool, and your name will be a foot note for other phd nerds to discover in their graduate level text books, while the rest of the world thanks ElonGates Ventures, and enters it into their oral histories.
It has the electrolytes that plants crave!
Sorry(-not sorry) lol, I could not resist throwing in that quote:-P.
Where's the next frame "the p-value was nearly significant, please provide funding for my next work"
"Why do all my job applications come back negative? What the fuck does 'overqualified' mean‽"
I was going to comment that someone doing a postdoc who would certainly know how to spell the word "definitely", then I realized, no they wouldn't.
Okay but... don't miss out on the forest for the trees either. e.g., teh hmuna brian is atsongihnigly good at pttaren reocgintoin.
I'm in this picture and I don't like it
Where's the "surely if I do ANOTHER postdoc I'll be a better applicant for a TT position..."
How is education in science treated/rewarded in other countries?
What countries are front runners in actively seeking out and promoting scientific advancement for the benefit of their economy; or whatever it is that other countries seek to improve through scientific advancement?
Or has the whole world become a close-minded cesspit of greed that only sees education as a way to make a fortune off some of the world's most capable minds whilst simultaneously crushing their spirit and holding them back?
There should be one more panel of the clown standing in a room full of four year old children:
The enormous lifelong debt that this person incurred over many years of study and will take him 50 years to pay off
There are some ways to use a PhD that the Jedi would consider "unnatural".