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Summary: do it if you want to become a career researcher, but if you want to do creative hacking than cut out the middleman and just do it. Gradschool is the hotbed of timewaste an…

Check this older thread also for some perspective and useful advice: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=348774

Europe, not-so-high salaries, high taxes, social equality, long payed holidays, etc. etc.

Already my comment is lost among the many replies... I can't express how useful and motivating some of the advice is, so I'd really like to thank to all those who are taking the ti…

I've been amazed how helpful people have been here to career advice questions earlier, so as I feel I have hit rock-bottom today, I give it a try myself (I am a regular poster, but…