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My advisor made the exact same point. Although we did receive funding from startups to work on adjacent problems.

Physicist here. Since you probably have a good background in optimization, work through problems in: - Taylor for Classical Mechanics or Goldstein (a bit more advanced) - Griffiths…

That's how I learned; on a good ol'fashion gentoo box. learned so much about os stuff and kernel drivers, etc... It was like diving in the deep end of a pool though.

I'm happy you posted this.

Typically the university pays professors salary and gives you a startup fund. Professors have to bring in grant money to fund students, build a lab, travel to conferences to advert…

This is not my experience with the newer generation of professors in STEM. Writing that paper means making getting funding and that means networking (giving talks, creating/maintai…

Hahaha, some of the people I considered the most academic in my physics cohort are going consulting. After 5-6 years of making 25k per year and working long hours (which is not bad…

Most of my cohort are now data scientists or ML/AI engineers. Honestly, the trend I seeing is that weaker students -ie can't find data science or consulting jobs- move on to post-d…

This is a good point. There are too many confounding factors. I recently finished my PhD and reflecting back, it was hard and a lot of work, certainly not what I imagined as an und…

Well, there goes my weekend :)

Your comment made my day :)

This hits close to home.

What, you don't want to be a 10th year grad student then post-doc till your mid-to-late 30's? Also, to be honest, those problems are kind of boring. :) -- phd in physics.

in its butt

It's too bad we lost blue waters.

ejmr is the anon job board/shitposting for economists heavier on the shitposting though.

I feel totally undervalued financially and intellectually in acadamia. I'm was considering calling this a sunk cost and moving on but based on the comments here, I think I'll stick…

I'm a frustrated grad student in STEM. I posted here a few days ago crowdsourcing for career advice on what to do next: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15610675 Thanks.

I'd wish I had read this in 2006. I didn't know PG had this repo of great articles.

Good point about waking up early and working. That's what I'm doing now with my coursework. I also do research during weekends, but I've been experimenting with taking one day off …

Thanks for the response. One of the main reasons I'm unhappy with my work is I do the bare minimum to publish and submit. So far I've published 3 first author papers and somehow th…

Good point. I'm lacking in the side projects area since I've dedicated most my effort to my phd which really just amounts to data analysis scripts. I did take quite a bit of cs cou…

Honestly, I've been way to risk averse in life. It's part of the reason I stayed in academia.