i explained to my mom at the age of 23 that hard work and dedication were not likely to be a contributing factor to success my career and that i was better fit for life as a gentleman scientisthttps://twitter.com/k8_lister/status/1418903705525657601 …
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this came after two other formative events in my life
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the first was on a bus ride up to duluth i looked out over the rolling prairie and suddenly though to myself. "why work for the man when you could be. the man" longterm i did not actually manage this but i did add an economics major to my degree when i got back to my apartment
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the second was reading this piece in which
@PhilipGreenspun laid out why an academic science career is typically a terrible idea not just for women but for everyone this inspired me to be incredibly mercenary about how i approached graduate school https://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science …9 replies 2 retweets 87 likesShow this thread -
Replying to @eigenrobot @PhilipGreenspun
I would love tips on a mercenary approach to grad school
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Replying to @imperialauditor @PhilipGreenspun
go into a field with high-paying and plentiful alternatives to an academic career, and make sure you get the skills necessary to pursue those options in the course of your grad program this is tricky because what's available private sector and requirements for those jobs changes
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in my case I made a point of teaching myself to code and taking ML classes (just emerging as a megafield) after I finished my orals I'm not sure there's as straightforward a path to doing this now--data science is a little more regimented than it used to be
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if possible it's also good to do internships. a second way in which I got lucky was that I went to school in Seattle a solid half of my class got Amazon contract work and that was very helpful in an industry job search
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regardless make an exit plan that does not involve getting lucky in your research program and then getting lucky in the academic job market university positions are probably only gonna become scarcer owing to demographics unless they can import the entire world
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