• Jumpingspiderman@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    TBH, I don’t blame her in the least. It’s hard enough for men. I can’t imagine what it must be like for women to endure misogyny on top of what men go through in STEM.

  • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    If you’ve got it, flaunt it.

    I hope she manages to set up an irrevocable trust that guarantees steady income for the rest of her life so someday she can quit sex work and just pursue art or something if she wants

    Hell, maybe it’ll turn out that sex work is her art and that is ok too

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    18 days ago

    She probably gets treated more respectfully by her OnlyFans viewers than her co-workers in her PhD program.

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    18 days ago

    I personally never understood dropping out when something like this happeneds. Like bro now you got the money to have the degree and not worry about paying it off. Might as well have it just to have it

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        18 days ago

        As someone who didnt even pass their first year and dropped out, mind explaining whats involved in a PHD and why science ones are so grueling?

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          18 days ago

          It’s basically just working for 6 years for not much pay while your friends who got jobs right out of undergrad are making at 3-5x as much.

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              18 days ago

              And the work-life balance is atrocious.

              When I started, my advisor told me to not think of myself as an employee, but as a “researcher”. IE I don’t get to clock out, my life revolved around learning/reseaching

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              17 days ago

              Generally no if we consider it from a financial perspective. Whether or not it’s worth it on an emotional level is very individual

              I work in engineering with a masters, and I make more than people with only a bachelors. However, even with the masters pay bump I am unlikely to ever make enough extra money to make up for the financial losses I incurred in getting the graduate degree. It’s only “worth it” financially if you work full time and have your company pay for the degree.

              PHDs make about the same amount of money and get about the same positions as someone with an only Masters. You get a PHD because you love studying and research enough to basically give up half of a decade of your life.

              I considered getting a PHD until I realized that >50% of the PHD students and graduates I spoke to described it as, “6 years of my life I’ll never get back”.

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      17 days ago

      Plenty of Chinese, black, south american weiners.

      There is no need to bring in race and divide us. We’re all getting fucked by the 1% regardless of skin color.

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Complete the damn degree and then do what you want. At least your have a document to help you if the shit hits the fan.