I am doing my doctorate at the age of 50. Not for a career, not for an academic future, but just for my interest in a subject. I want to go deeper and this is my way to achieve this goal. But I totally understand your point of view. Thanks for your videos!
53 here, and last month I finished my self-funded PhD after 12 years. It was a quest for answers to challenges I encountered in my clinical work. Sometimes hard, also for the family, but absolutely worth it!
I love this channel. It's refreshing to hear someone, an actual human being, talk about these things. What's up with PhD students not being able to even talk about all these feelings. I am a PhD student in music, and when I say, "I just want a job, really,." people look at me like I am putting them down (along with me)!
I’m about to start a PhD coming January. It has been my dream since I was 8 (really). I built my life in the academia and research fields and your video just made me surer about my decision. Thank you!
I've always pictured myself in academia and joined academia right after graduating with my bachelor's. For five years, I was holding a research position and managed to publish more and presented in more conferences than most PhD students may have during the course of their programme! I was also giving guest lectures annually on my field of expertise! My fellow "junior scholars" colleagues at the research centre I worked were all either (a) holding a master's and undertook a researcher position before continuing on to a PhD or (b) postdocs actively applying for TT positions. Everyone knew why they were there and where they wanted to be, and all were supportive of me being one of them. I left to do my master's last year and graduated this year. Now I'm taking a hiatus from academia and working in the public sector. It is so structured (and suffocating) here in govt that I miss the freedom I had in academia. But I'm planning my return to academia - first into a PhD programme, and then where ever life takes me. It just feels like the natural next step for me.
I am self funded. In my final/ write-up year. For me, it wasn't easy but it was worth it. I applied for funding many times and did not get it. When I started the PhD I got a job as a Part-Time Lecturer, in addition to support from my wife. The PhD journey was an intentional one for me. Nonetheless, the points you raised are valid. Not everyone has the financial base to be self funded. It is mentally and emotionally draining
The note about insecurity is important. My sense is many people fall into that trap, but it fails to satisfy. The truth is that no one cares about you having a PhD or not.
What if the role you're aspiring to do has a PhD as prerequisite? I would love to get into a R&D role but it is merely impossible to get into that without a PhD. Genuinely asking
@@nirash8018they’re referring to personal insecurity and the fact that socially no one cares that you have a PhD. If it’s a job requirement then it’s a job requirement, that’s a different question
@@pabloreed7717 Exactly. Thank you. I was referring to social status. If you need to jump through a job prerequisite, that is a practical concern (a reasonable one).
Eons ago I optimised my decision : no PhD .. but I was still accepted as a "Research Scientist" at a large industrial lab, a bit like Bell Labs. I was PAID to play with the latest tech!
I did Msc because no jobs after BSc, I did PhD because I did not find job afte Msc. I did post doctoral fellowship because I did not find job after PhD. I ended up in a low paying job after postdoc. Now I look back I realize I should have stopped at Msc.
You are very correct! In fact, the world is changing fast, and flexibility seems to be an indispensable skill everyone should have. It makes one think critically and consider all available options rather than flowing along the wind.
I think you do need to differentiate between a low information PhD that leaves the student in debt, and one that gives them a free ride to learn something real. I defaulted from an undergrad in math to a PhD from Harvard with Canadian government funding for four years. The most important thing I got from it was a love of travel (second year in Paris, thesis written in Kyoto). Then I learned how to program. It was avoidant, but for myself I didn't have any better ideas at age 21. Better to get a math PhD than do drugs on the streets of Montreal!
I was really into getting a PhD. But I sat down, saw the job market, saw my professor who have recently completed their PhD go for post doc and start a writing and editing agency for ppl writing their thesis(his students basically) as side hustle. I was actually devastated by that.
I am paying out of pocket for my doctorate, unfortunately. However, I work full-time and I am a college adjunct professor. I am not in debt for it, as I pay monthly. I am 61, and at this point, it won't help me a lot as I retire in 4 years. I tried it my first time in 2003-2005 and was ABD. I am doing it for personal satisfaction and will also earn more as a professor with it. I am currently working on my graduate research project/dissertation. I am at Liberty University, and the degree is a Doctorate of Strategic Leadership.
I get that doing a PHD is shit and academic culture isn't nice but what is out there for the lot of us who hate doing stuff for the profit of things and are driven by wanting to understand?
Well, one of the reasons for me to do phd and continue with academic path is time you spend on understanding things. This is such a great feeling when you can see a tiny bit more of this world through your research 😊 Or I'm just crazy enough🤷
Hi Andy - great video! As a final year PhD student, a lot of what you say resonates with me - I see a lot of my fellow students struggling with the step up from Masters, which is massive! I think self motivation and organisation are much more difficult than the intellectual demands in many ways! I am an oldie PhD student, who started just before I was 60, to qualify for the student loan (scandalously, you can't get one after you're 60) and my pension is too small to ever have to repay. I did this to free up the scholarships for younger students who would be more likely to have to repay, but I agree that for most people, self funding isn't a great idea - most of my younger colleagues already have debts of over £100k, which is appalling. BTW, I'm not the dude in the photo - that's my partner; I don't have my own UA-cam login 😂
Thank you, Andy. The last reason you mentioned resonates with me, trying to prove I am the clever one and proving people wrong that said I am just the class clown. I graduated in 2023 and I'm pretty much still sitting with that feeling of "Why does nothing really feel different now that I have this qualification (that precious few people actually care about)?" In a way I am now rebuilding myself and questioning all those misguidedness that lead to me doing my PhD.
My boss is offering me a fully paid PhD (with my current salary and coming raises). I am seriously considering accepting since I am given a carte blanche as to what my research interest should be and the fact that I'm fanatically obsessed with applied mathematics. I note that I don't hit any of the concerns laid out in this video, my only objection is that I'm going to be stuck with my current employer for 4 years and might miss great opportunities unless I quit the PhD which goes against my convictions in finishing everything I start. On the other hand I might regret this missed opportunity. .
You should go for a phd as soon as you have such a fantastic topic as "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose”. Immediately go to Cambrige or Oxford and start writing your thesis. You can not only shape your life in a fantastic way, but you will be remembered for your smelly stuff even in 10000 years...
This is golden content Andy. Thank you so much for making this. I am always inclined in making or consuming content about what people are not seeing or not talking about and the problems in academia and education system is one of them. I feel so grateful that someone like you is making this content because now i have your video to share with people to support my argument 😅. Because my own opinion does not mean much without citation 😂
I love your channel. I rejected a fully funded PhD last year, and sometimes, I regret it. I come back to your videos because they helped me understand and review my motives for rejecting my offer. I realise that yes, the job market is challenging, but at the end of the day, if I were at this moment hired as a quantitative ecologist, I wouldn't even think about the PhD. So I just have to keep applying hihi.
I am self funding 44 year old. I’ve been interested in PhD study for 10 years, before I took the decision to get on with it. But I am seriously engaged and enjoying the research and the experience!
Came here expecting to be dissuaded from commencing a Phd but not the case. Applying for a funded Phd by publication (work for NHS) as figured I am already doing research, currently writing for publication, and it will very likely improve my opportunities, though not as you say my income necessarily.
Yours is a very smart approach and you are very lucky to have the opportunity. Everything to gain (a shiny PhD diploma) with none of the downsides (no taking 3-4 years out of your working life, no cut in salary, no hit to your personal finances, you will still have a job at the end). I know a few people who managed to combine their day job with PhD research and things worked out very well for them. Good luck!!!
Where I live, there was a time where even people with PhD's ended up becoming taxi drivers. Simply there were not the jobs that supported the education they earned, so yes in this case it becomes unessary for qualifications, unless you do it for the passion of acquiring the degree.
Do you know in what area these people did their PhDs? Were they in arts and humanities? Or in science and tech? I struggle to imagine that people with PhDs in science and technology subjects end up driving taxis for a living.
I am not that interested in a PhD but I am really really interested in teaching college kids . I really want to be an assistant professor and a professor eventually. So I have to do a PhD.
About the self-funded PhD, it depends... For example in Belgium it usually costs between 400 and 800 euros per year and in addition you are paid as a professor's assistant at university or teaching assistant. And the university pays for the research expenses according to the needs and what is reasonable etc.
These are on point. But despite this im still going to do a PhD despite needing structure to survive and using it to fill a gaping whole in myself. I'm also doing it because the best research positions in tech are gatekept by PhDs and I hate software engineering and don't want to be relegated to engineering roles.
100% agree with doing a PhD to avoid things. My PhD was miserable the whole way through. The only thing my PhD shows people is I'm super determined. I'm in a completely different field now and there's no comparison how happy and fulfilled I am today. Looking back I should have switched careers at the beginning of my masters.
Im glad i found this video because it confirmed why i want a phd so bad. I really want to change the world in any small way possible. I want to teach people, write about my interest, research, have a job that is meaningful to me. Funny enough no one in my friend group is postgrad, no one in my family past undergrad, im the only one i known taking this path
Hi I've just watched your poster video ,and it was very good but please could you do a video on how to narrow down a subject to keep to a point when there's so much linked to it.
I am in the same predicament. I have been trying to find jobs and it just isn't working. I applied with the biopharmaceutical companies and some research institutions for an internship, traineeship and other relevant position for a grad student. But my profile is not strong enough, that is the conclusion I made after facing rejections. The only path that I can walk on for now is a docotoral programme. Is it the best? I don't know. But it is within reach. I really wanted to make my profile strong, and really wanted to have a more holistic grasp of the things before diving into a doctoral programme. But it's not happening so. Everytime I recieve a response for my applicatio it reads...Due to higher competition your resume couldn't be retained. Should I keep trying to find a job or just go for a PhD? I don't even know the answer to it.
#1 is so true it hurts. I know a married guy whose children are approaching adolescence. At age 39 he made the brilliant decision to return to university in order to begin his Ph.D. in... Leisure Studies 🤦♂️
Thanks for the info. Glad that I don't fit into any of the catagories, as I work through physics towards a PhD. It's a lot of work, and yes, as a programmer and entrepreneur, I could probably build a successful practice, AI is destroying that field. Thus I need to get into the space race and prepare for space travel research.
I mean I still want to do a PhD but I love the videos so I'm gonna keep watching them until I'm either positively convinced I should absolutely do a PhD or forget it
I want to publish books and papers like the ones I enjoyed reading. Is that a good reason? Also PhDs get more PR points lol. I need to escape from where I live.
People need to do the maths. If a department has 30 academics then they need to graduate a new PhD each year to eventually fill the vacancy as academics retire. Sou you look at the department and it has 40 postgrads which means that they graduate 10 per year, so what do these all do. Answer is one or two go into research, some will get teaching only positions, the rest will find something to do. Data Science seems to be popular at the moment, they become bad data scientists because they pick up programming fast. Or business or government, jobs that they could have got before they got a PhD. Anyway, areas like physics, ecology or biomedical are bad. They want someone to do the professors experiments. So a postgrad gets to do a heap of experimental work that could be done by an employed graduate, but they are so much cheaper. The government gives them the money. Then the supervisor helps write the papers and they are published. Then the supervisor tells prospective employers that this student is not suitable for a postdoc as they have no capacity to generate research of their own.
I have delayed the PhD thing for so long, especially because I was employed as a lecturer in a university in my home country. I didn’t find academic life apealing and the impact is not there. You’re basically living in a bubble and in our country research is basically your other part time job and the rest is teaching. However, I really really enjoy research and the process of it all. I changed my fields from physics to climate and there’s alot to learn in this knew field. I don’t know what’s next but definitely not academia
I deliberated for 5 years before doing a PhD, made sure I had a paid position, loved my subject, and still it was very hard. I had to work through a lot of insecurity (with a therapist) and switch supervisors, but now I'm positive it will work out in the end. Doing a PhD is a sacrifice, and you have to be pretty sure about why you're making that sacrifice.
Hello Andy, you had a video about how to manage a lit review and you were making an excel spreadsheet, I have struggled to find it, could you help me which one was that?
@@Marewig happening in real time in Asia - check matrimonial sites in India. It has been that over a decade. China and other countries do the same. (E.g. a woman with a master's in China will not marry anyone below her level.)
I want to apply for a phd so bad but i am very scared to not be accepted, i am from lebanon, i loveeee research, but a friend of mine and a lot of people applying say that their should be a relation between the university i want to apply and the university i study in (in lebanon their is no phd) or they told me that i should at least do masters in the same university i want to apply a phd. They told me that the probability of my acceptance will be 5%. My question is, is that true??
Hi ANDY, I'm really having difficulty getting gpt to explain it's latest functionality. Specifically, I notice GPT4.0 now has a "search the web option" however normal gpt 4.0 searches the web anyway when requested, so does the "search the web option" actually do anything that isn't already easily achievable without selecting it, and just using 4.0 as usual? Thanks
A good reason? You work in a sector where a PhD is an entry level requirement, or is a prerequisite to getting promotion. If your dream is to work at a University you will have to earn a PhD. Research and lecturing posts at Universities all require a PhD just to get past the first selection process. And tech businesses in the private sector need ultra-specialised knowledge that can only come from a recent PhD -- quantum, AI, genomics, data science, vaccines etc etc.
Valid. You can't have any career if you don't have a life. But you'd still need to make a plan for the PhD itself, though. It's not a walk in the park either.
6 years into mine and wishing I looked at this earlier 🥲 dealt with covid, discovering I have adhd very recently, a retiring supervisor and a sponsor supervisor moving on! All data collected, just writing up, but also working full time for another company in the industry. Wish me luck!
Hey! You can do it! I just graduated. Also had a codvisor move institutions, found out I had cptsd, and had to throw out my field work due to COVID. Best of luck! You've made it this far!
I'm from Russia and I do PhD to avoid army. I think it can be considered as an exemption.
I am doing my doctorate at the age of 50. Not for a career, not for an academic future, but just for my interest in a subject. I want to go deeper and this is my way to achieve this goal. But I totally understand your point of view. Thanks for your videos!
Having similar circumstances..53 and about to start it. Interested to research in that field
53 here, and last month I finished my self-funded PhD after 12 years. It was a quest for answers to challenges I encountered in my clinical work. Sometimes hard, also for the family, but absolutely worth it!
I love this channel. It's refreshing to hear someone, an actual human being, talk about these things. What's up with PhD students not being able to even talk about all these feelings. I am a PhD student in music, and when I say, "I just want a job, really,." people look at me like I am putting them down (along with me)!
I’m about to start a PhD coming January. It has been my dream since I was 8 (really). I built my life in the academia and research fields and your video just made me surer about my decision. Thank you!
Best of luck 😊
I've always pictured myself in academia and joined academia right after graduating with my bachelor's. For five years, I was holding a research position and managed to publish more and presented in more conferences than most PhD students may have during the course of their programme! I was also giving guest lectures annually on my field of expertise! My fellow "junior scholars" colleagues at the research centre I worked were all either (a) holding a master's and undertook a researcher position before continuing on to a PhD or (b) postdocs actively applying for TT positions. Everyone knew why they were there and where they wanted to be, and all were supportive of me being one of them. I left to do my master's last year and graduated this year. Now I'm taking a hiatus from academia and working in the public sector. It is so structured (and suffocating) here in govt that I miss the freedom I had in academia. But I'm planning my return to academia - first into a PhD programme, and then where ever life takes me. It just feels like the natural next step for me.
I am self funded. In my final/ write-up year. For me, it wasn't easy but it was worth it. I applied for funding many times and did not get it. When I started the PhD I got a job as a Part-Time Lecturer, in addition to support from my wife.
The PhD journey was an intentional one for me.
Nonetheless, the points you raised are valid. Not everyone has the financial base to be self funded. It is mentally and emotionally draining
The note about insecurity is important. My sense is many people fall into that trap, but it fails to satisfy. The truth is that no one cares about you having a PhD or not.
Human resources the do
What if the role you're aspiring to do has a PhD as prerequisite? I would love to get into a R&D role but it is merely impossible to get into that without a PhD. Genuinely asking
@@nirash8018they’re referring to personal insecurity and the fact that socially no one cares that you have a PhD. If it’s a job requirement then it’s a job requirement, that’s a different question
@@pabloreed7717 Exactly. Thank you. I was referring to social status. If you need to jump through a job prerequisite, that is a practical concern (a reasonable one).
@@studybooks3395 Yes, for qualification purposes. I should have put a proviso/clarification.
Eons ago I optimised my decision : no PhD .. but I was still accepted as a "Research Scientist" at a large industrial lab, a bit like Bell Labs. I was PAID to play with the latest tech!
I did Msc because no jobs after BSc, I did PhD because I did not find job afte Msc. I did post doctoral fellowship because I did not find job after PhD. I ended up in a low paying job after postdoc. Now I look back I realize I should have stopped at Msc.
Are you in a research position now?
No, I moved on to switch field to software development
Same for me, I regret loosing my time/effort/money in the PhD. Just for economical/professional reasons it is not justified.
You are very correct! In fact, the world is changing fast, and flexibility seems to be an indispensable skill everyone should have. It makes one think critically and consider all available options rather than flowing along the wind.
I think you do need to differentiate between a low information PhD that leaves the student in debt, and one that gives them a free ride to learn something real. I defaulted from an undergrad in math to a PhD from Harvard with Canadian government funding for four years. The most important thing I got from it was a love of travel (second year in Paris, thesis written in Kyoto). Then I learned how to program.
It was avoidant, but for myself I didn't have any better ideas at age 21. Better to get a math PhD than do drugs on the streets of Montreal!
I was really into getting a PhD. But I sat down, saw the job market, saw my professor who have recently completed their PhD go for post doc and start a writing and editing agency for ppl writing their thesis(his students basically) as side hustle. I was actually devastated by that.
I am paying out of pocket for my doctorate, unfortunately. However, I work full-time and I am a college adjunct professor. I am not in debt for it, as I pay monthly. I am 61, and at this point, it won't help me a lot as I retire in 4 years. I tried it my first time in 2003-2005 and was ABD. I am doing it for personal satisfaction and will also earn more as a professor with it. I am currently working on my graduate research project/dissertation. I am at Liberty University, and the degree is a Doctorate of Strategic Leadership.
My best regards to you from Egypt, you are the man, I'm grateful to you for all of your content!
Thank you very very much for these videos! You're a hero
I get that doing a PHD is shit and academic culture isn't nice but what is out there for the lot of us who hate doing stuff for the profit of things and are driven by wanting to understand?
Every time i watch your videos i love love love you andy. Oh my god. You are so real.!!
Well, one of the reasons for me to do phd and continue with academic path is time you spend on understanding things. This is such a great feeling when you can see a tiny bit more of this world through your research 😊
Or I'm just crazy enough🤷
Hi Andy - great video! As a final year PhD student, a lot of what you say resonates with me - I see a lot of my fellow students struggling with the step up from Masters, which is massive! I think self motivation and organisation are much more difficult than the intellectual demands in many ways! I am an oldie PhD student, who started just before I was 60, to qualify for the student loan (scandalously, you can't get one after you're 60) and my pension is too small to ever have to repay. I did this to free up the scholarships for younger students who would be more likely to have to repay, but I agree that for most people, self funding isn't a great idea - most of my younger colleagues already have debts of over £100k, which is appalling. BTW, I'm not the dude in the photo - that's my partner; I don't have my own UA-cam login 😂
Thank you, Andy. The last reason you mentioned resonates with me, trying to prove I am the clever one and proving people wrong that said I am just the class clown. I graduated in 2023 and I'm pretty much still sitting with that feeling of "Why does nothing really feel different now that I have this qualification (that precious few people actually care about)?"
In a way I am now rebuilding myself and questioning all those misguidedness that lead to me doing my PhD.
My boss is offering me a fully paid PhD (with my current salary and coming raises). I am seriously considering accepting since I am given a carte blanche as to what my research interest should be and the fact that I'm fanatically obsessed with applied mathematics. I note that I don't hit any of the concerns laid out in this video, my only objection is that I'm going to be stuck with my current employer for 4 years and might miss great opportunities unless I quit the PhD which goes against my convictions in finishing everything I start. On the other hand I might regret this missed opportunity. .
Man. You should do it.
You should go for a phd as soon as you have such a fantastic topic as "Olfactory Ethics: The Politics of Smell in Modern and Contemporary Prose”. Immediately go to Cambrige or Oxford and start writing your thesis. You can not only shape your life in a fantastic way, but you will be remembered for your smelly stuff even in 10000 years...
This is golden content Andy. Thank you so much for making this. I am always inclined in making or consuming content about what people are not seeing or not talking about and the problems in academia and education system is one of them. I feel so grateful that someone like you is making this content because now i have your video to share with people to support my argument 😅. Because my own opinion does not mean much without citation 😂
I love your channel. I rejected a fully funded PhD last year, and sometimes, I regret it. I come back to your videos because they helped me understand and review my motives for rejecting my offer. I realise that yes, the job market is challenging, but at the end of the day, if I were at this moment hired as a quantitative ecologist, I wouldn't even think about the PhD. So I just have to keep applying hihi.
I am self funding 44 year old. I’ve been interested in PhD study for 10 years, before I took the decision to get on with it. But I am seriously engaged and enjoying the research and the experience!
Came here expecting to be dissuaded from commencing a Phd but not the case. Applying for a funded Phd by publication (work for NHS) as figured I am already doing research, currently writing for publication, and it will very likely improve my opportunities, though not as you say my income necessarily.
Yours is a very smart approach and you are very lucky to have the opportunity. Everything to gain (a shiny PhD diploma) with none of the downsides (no taking 3-4 years out of your working life, no cut in salary, no hit to your personal finances, you will still have a job at the end). I know a few people who managed to combine their day job with PhD research and things worked out very well for them. Good luck!!!
Where I live, there was a time where even people with PhD's ended up becoming taxi drivers. Simply there were not the jobs that supported the education they earned, so yes in this case it becomes unessary for qualifications, unless you do it for the passion of acquiring the degree.
Do you know in what area these people did their PhDs? Were they in arts and humanities? Or in science and tech? I struggle to imagine that people with PhDs in science and technology subjects end up driving taxis for a living.
@@baltasarnoreno5973Want to know the reason too and where he live
You had me at no 1
"It's only going to make whatever mental problem you have worse"! 😂😂😂 So it's not a question of whether there's a mental problem or not.
exactly, I stuck in the loop😄
Im 34 and im planning to do phd as its literally affecting my research career..i cant take up independent projects..
I am not that interested in a PhD but I am really really interested in teaching college kids . I really want to be an assistant professor and a professor eventually. So I have to do a PhD.
You can teach with a masters. PhD isn’t required.
you are a savior !!! i love ur genuine and very useful content !!!!
About the self-funded PhD, it depends... For example in Belgium it usually costs between 400 and 800 euros per year and in addition you are paid as a professor's assistant
at university or teaching assistant. And the university pays for the research expenses according to the needs and what is reasonable etc.
The structure bit just made me wanna do the phd more
These are on point. But despite this im still going to do a PhD despite needing structure to survive and using it to fill a gaping whole in myself. I'm also doing it because the best research positions in tech are gatekept by PhDs and I hate software engineering and don't want to be relegated to engineering roles.
Why is eng role considered as a relegation?
Because they have a lower barrier to entry.
100% agree with doing a PhD to avoid things. My PhD was miserable the whole way through. The only thing my PhD shows people is I'm super determined. I'm in a completely different field now and there's no comparison how happy and fulfilled I am today. Looking back I should have switched careers at the beginning of my masters.
Im glad i found this video because it confirmed why i want a phd so bad. I really want to change the world in any small way possible. I want to teach people, write about my interest, research, have a job that is meaningful to me.
Funny enough no one in my friend group is postgrad, no one in my family past undergrad, im the only one i known taking this path
just refound your channel! do you every do interviews with PhD students?? I am always so interested in different PhD programs.
I am afraid that if I don't do one now that I am already 30y (old for a PhD), I will regret later when I am really old
😂 I'm 34 and I don't feel old for a PhD. I won't give up the idea until 50.
I'm 32 and I'm just starting, but my peer who's also starting his first year is 43 and he's doing just fine
I am happy to see this comment. I wanted to start one and I am 31 and I thought I was too old.
Nah, I am 48 and looking to start my PhD in May.
@@machidamannice, good luck with your PhD!
Hi I've just watched your poster video ,and it was very good but please could you do a video on how to narrow down a subject to keep to a point when there's so much linked to it.
I am in the same predicament. I have been trying to find jobs and it just isn't working. I applied with the biopharmaceutical companies and some research institutions for an internship, traineeship and other relevant position for a grad student. But my profile is not strong enough, that is the conclusion I made after facing rejections. The only path that I can walk on for now is a docotoral programme. Is it the best? I don't know. But it is within reach.
I really wanted to make my profile strong, and really wanted to have a more holistic grasp of the things before diving into a doctoral programme. But it's not happening so. Everytime I recieve a response for my applicatio it reads...Due to higher competition your resume couldn't be retained.
Should I keep trying to find a job or just go for a PhD? I don't even know the answer to it.
#1 is so true it hurts. I know a married guy whose children are approaching adolescence. At age 39 he made the brilliant decision to return to university in order to begin his Ph.D. in... Leisure Studies 🤦♂️
Thanks for the info. Glad that I don't fit into any of the catagories, as I work through physics towards a PhD. It's a lot of work, and yes, as a programmer and entrepreneur, I could probably build a successful practice, AI is destroying that field. Thus I need to get into the space race and prepare for space travel research.
I could not agree more with Dr. Stapleton, especially the self-funded Ph.D. program. The ROI is simply not present.
Barely found a Bsc job with my Msc in the field. Now I gonna sit it trough for a couple of years. Doing a PhD would literally make me unemployable.
I mean I still want to do a PhD but I love the videos so I'm gonna keep watching them until I'm either positively convinced I should absolutely do a PhD or forget it
I want to publish books and papers like the ones I enjoyed reading. Is that a good reason?
Also PhDs get more PR points lol. I need to escape from where I live.
People need to do the maths. If a department has 30 academics then they need to graduate a new PhD each year to eventually fill the vacancy as academics retire. Sou you look at the department and it has 40 postgrads which means that they graduate 10 per year, so what do these all do. Answer is one or two go into research, some will get teaching only positions, the rest will find something to do. Data Science seems to be popular at the moment, they become bad data scientists because they pick up programming fast. Or business or government, jobs that they could have got before they got a PhD. Anyway, areas like physics, ecology or biomedical are bad. They want someone to do the professors experiments. So a postgrad gets to do a heap of experimental work that could be done by an employed graduate, but they are so much cheaper. The government gives them the money. Then the supervisor helps write the papers and they are published. Then the supervisor tells prospective employers that this student is not suitable for a postdoc as they have no capacity to generate research of their own.
I have delayed the PhD thing for so long, especially because I was employed as a lecturer in a university in my home country. I didn’t find academic life apealing and the impact is not there. You’re basically living in a bubble and in our country research is basically your other part time job and the rest is teaching. However, I really really enjoy research and the process of it all. I changed my fields from physics to climate and there’s alot to learn in this knew field. I don’t know what’s next but definitely not academia
What of doing a PhD so as to relocate to another country ??
I deliberated for 5 years before doing a PhD, made sure I had a paid position, loved my subject, and still it was very hard. I had to work through a lot of insecurity (with a therapist) and switch supervisors, but now I'm positive it will work out in the end. Doing a PhD is a sacrifice, and you have to be pretty sure about why you're making that sacrifice.
i've just completed a phd in Classics and History and have really been struggling to find work
Could you check other countries? Going abroad might be the solution.
Hello Andy, you had a video about how to manage a lit review and you were making an excel spreadsheet, I have struggled to find it, could you help me which one was that?
What would you think of someone just getting a masters for their career and then doing a PhD after they retire?
Thank you
REQUEST: can you suggest a tool which creates/converts documents into the 'typical' PDF format seen in most PDF research papers. Thanks.
Microsoft 365 has the feature
Bring PPOP back! p.s. great video Andy
I am interested for fully funded PhD but can't find one unfortunately...can any one suggest me where to get this & frm which university
Doing PhD for the "Marriage Market"...
Which country
@gayatricasey6618 Asian ones
Now this sounds like an interesting fiction idea. You could probably write it and sell it.
@@Marewig happening in real time in Asia - check matrimonial sites in India. It has been that over a decade. China and other countries do the same. (E.g. a woman with a master's in China will not marry anyone below her level.)
@@pseudovictim not happening in india dude...
I want to apply for a phd so bad but i am very scared to not be accepted, i am from lebanon, i loveeee research, but a friend of mine and a lot of people applying say that their should be a relation between the university i want to apply and the university i study in (in lebanon their is no phd) or they told me that i should at least do masters in the same university i want to apply a phd. They told me that the probability of my acceptance will be 5%.
My question is, is that true??
Hi ANDY, I'm really having difficulty getting gpt to explain it's latest functionality. Specifically, I notice GPT4.0 now has a "search the web option" however normal gpt 4.0 searches the web anyway when requested, so does the "search the web option" actually do anything that isn't already easily achievable without selecting it, and just using 4.0 as usual? Thanks
So, what's a good reason for doing one?!
A good reason? You work in a sector where a PhD is an entry level requirement, or is a prerequisite to getting promotion. If your dream is to work at a University you will have to earn a PhD. Research and lecturing posts at Universities all require a PhD just to get past the first selection process. And tech businesses in the private sector need ultra-specialised knowledge that can only come from a recent PhD -- quantum, AI, genomics, data science, vaccines etc etc.
But if students don’t do PhD’s then the research system of universities, journals and science would collapse
my bachelor rn goes just like described phd
So what are the right reasons for doing PhD?
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I use to not die on the war. Is this valid enough?
Valid. You can't have any career if you don't have a life. But you'd still need to make a plan for the PhD itself, though. It's not a walk in the park either.
What do you think about the jay z situation?
Your education is your shield! I don't agree. I've listened to these theories over and over and Masters is great but PHD is better.
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Your eyes have got bigger doing a PhD.
Please stop that irritating voice. It was painful watching the video with that interruption
It's so fun...
So mee 😂😅
Don3t listen to him.
You have any advice?
@@UNMEASURED100 You have to consider your own circumstances, eg your own field of study, your alternatives....
6 years into mine and wishing I looked at this earlier 🥲 dealt with covid, discovering I have adhd very recently, a retiring supervisor and a sponsor supervisor moving on! All data collected, just writing up, but also working full time for another company in the industry. Wish me luck!
Hey! You can do it! I just graduated. Also had a codvisor move institutions, found out I had cptsd, and had to throw out my field work due to COVID. Best of luck! You've made it this far!
Why do I think this is a repost of an older video you had??