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Yes, there’s a process of personal transformation required, which inherently takes a few years. I wonder if one could do that while also part-time employed, e.g.? I dunno, maybe it’s just not feasible. It seems potentially valuable enough to be worth brainstorming about.
Starter-level actuaries are traditionally given 1/4 time at their jobs to study for exams (and expected to devote a lot more time outside work). It was concentrated misery but I learned more effectively in that environment than in grad school.
I was _so goddamned bored_ by the job that I started sneaking off to do more mathematics.
from what I've seen of PhD programs (including dating a woman who was in one) the real horror is not the opportunity cost / lack of income - it's the emotional torture 40% intentionally inflicted by professors, 60% unintentionally)
As someone on the downhill side of earning a PhD, this sounds roughly accurate. The job I want though (not in academia) requires the degree so I'm pushing through. It's not even the classwork. It's the arbitrary, subjectively graded, ossified hurdles on top of classwork.
If you don’t mind my asking… what non-academic job requires a PhD?
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