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TROIKA CURES GREEK
Jun 30, 2015

by R. Guyovich

Droo posted:

How much additional time and money would it take you to finish your PhD?

I really don't know very much about academia, but it seems like your best bet would be to finish the PhD (assuming the remaining requirements aren't huge) and then be willing to relocate anywhere in the country to teach at the high school or college level.


A PhD is more than just time, if your heart isn't in it you will be miserable and more than likely simply won't be able to complete the degree. Also the OP is correct, there are no jobs in the humanities. Like even if you are in one of the best programs in the world- it's not unusual for many subfields to have 1-2 job openings a year in the entire country.

Unfortunately OP unless you have an unusual background the high pay/high job security/ lots of jobs fields are a completely different skillset involving lots of math, computer skills and so on. You could very well be looking at starting from square one in a lot of those areas. If you are good in math though computer science and data science are booming for the foreseeable future. You really ought to have something in mind beyond money+job security though.

e: Accounting really isn't that great right now either, they are suffering from a similar problem as Law, though to a lessor degree- a lot of the stuff that paid the bills in the past is now automated. There are jobs, but there's much better ways to go with better pay.

TROIKA CURES GREEK fucked around with this message at 02:09 on Sep 25, 2015

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