(April 2, 2017 at 9:12 am)Alex K Wrote: I agree with Mathilda, if you have to ask... I did mine first and foremost because I was passiomate about the subject, and the expectation that I would probably be able to make a living afterwards was just one of the conditions that had to be met.
But the idea that you are giving up high paying jobs when doing a PhD is wrong. I've encountered plenty of industry jobs where they explicitely hire PhDs.
Of course, Alex you are in Europe and I am in America, and it seems to me that Europeans value education more than do Americans! Perhaps this is why Europe has less social ills than does America??
