I feel for the prospective grad students who are lied to about availability of funding. It sucks, because it happens a lot. But I was discouraged heavily from doing a PhD throughout the undergrad by professors and other grad students at my uni in Canada.
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And tbh it felt like shit to hear that. I didn’t want to do anything else, despite the job risks and debt. And while I incurred a lot of debt, Canada’s loan system isn’t so bad, compared to America anyway.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I couldn't imagine doing anything else either. Loyola offered full funding but only for 3 years (funding app hell after that while starting a dissertation). I took on debt as my son was born in year 1 of grad school. I'm lucky to have a good job and teach extra to pay off debt.
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There is no rigid advice that ever works for everyone, especially across countries. Anyone who wants to to grad school should be passionate about it, know the market reality, and go for it. People like me need to fight so there is a halfway decent field waiting for them.
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Speaking from a UK perspective, I am under no illusions about PhD programmes here, or the job market waiting for me. I still wanna do it, because, like many on here, I couldn't imagine not doing it.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @kacaliendo
Discouraging prospective grads instead of just being honest about the situation (funding/job market sucks). This also just...idk, it strikes me heavily to assume that all grad students are a bunch of naive fools?
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Yes as if our entire undergrad career we didn't hear, "what are you going to do with that degree?"
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Replying to @kacaliendo @AdmiralHip
I got that stuff within a week of starting my undergrad. A person in the English building randomly approached me outside a class, struck up a conversation about subjects, and then told me I'd made a terrible decision.
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The most common one was "you're doing English, so I guess you wanna be a teacher?".
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Yep got those right away too. Was told I was an idiot for choosing history and not stem or business.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @kacaliendo
I have had a lot of unsolicited advice from people studying business over the years.
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