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minus-squareHexboare [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·edit-21 month ago STEM people usually get paid to do their doctorates Stipends are usually very low and criminally low when you compare to what someone would make if they didn’t do a doctorate To say nothing of the debt from their undergrad and grad degrees
minus-squareTreadOnMe [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·edit-21 month agoTrue, still better than state of the humanities. The real tragedy is once they get their doctorate there is more economic value for companies in paying them really well to do nearly nothing, something I have heard about happening all too frequently.
Stipends are usually very low and criminally low when you compare to what someone would make if they didn’t do a doctorate
To say nothing of the debt from their undergrad and grad degrees
True, still better than state of the humanities.
The real tragedy is once they get their doctorate there is more economic value for companies in paying them really well to do nearly nothing, something I have heard about happening all too frequently.