Recently, I've witnessed some senior academics mock PhDs & postdocs for choosing industry. Apart from the utterly baseless points raised (hours are flexible in many data science jobs, workloads are often similar, etc.) — it's completely out of order in general. I see you.
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Replying to @o_guest
i feel that moving to industry is perfectly fine, as long as you don't think it's going to get rid of all the problems one faces in academia and life will be hunky dory---you often just acquire new kinds of problems.
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Replying to @shravanvasishth @o_guest
but life could get better in industry than in academia, of course. i guess it depends on the type of job one gets.
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Yeah, from working in the same lab with part-time PhD students who work full-time at data sci companies I noticed that they have a similar routine to PhD students with less depression since they are fired if they don't go to work and going seems somewhat preventative IMHO.
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But yes of course there are other jobs with other more dramatically different responsibilities. At the end of the day postdocs also would get fired if they didn't show up to work every day too, so it's not black and white.
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