Yeah, I got my current teaching position by essentially volunteer professoring while doing some grad work. Super exploitative on paper, though that wasnât the intention of anyone involved (tiny college hated by the conservatives so they kinda had to wing it every time legislative fuckery happened). But itâs rough, I donât make enough to pay my (incredibly cheap) mortgage so Iâm in the awkward position of having been financially unemployed for a year while still working full time. Not to sound too whiny but man, the culture of âGuess Iâll starve because I just love my students so muchâ is absurdly toxic. And thatâs coming from someone firmly part of that culture.
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logicbomb@lemmy.world â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Iâve said it before, but one reason I didnât pursue a PhD is that there appeared to be an element of hazing in the entire thing.
Several of the PhD students I knew were languishing for years trying to get their thesis together, in what can only be described as poverty.
Meanwhile, half of the professors were miserable, and if they made good money, it was because they were very focused on how to make money. The happiest postgrad I knew was a senior lecturer who had given up on becoming a professor.
The best you can hope for is that your personal area of interest happens to have a lot of funding.
Yet these people almost universally seemed to think, âWell, thatâs just how it is. The nice thing is that if you can get an academic position, it sucks less than being a PhD student.â
Warl0k3@lemmy.world â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
they abuse the use of part-time professors/PHD for instrunctors, so they dont get tenure, to cover all thier neccesary classes.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
not to mention the dozens of PAPERS(fluff pieces) you need your resume to get certain positions in a faculty positon in a university. thats where im hearing the complaints coming from. Plus PHD spends alot of thier time chasing grants in universities( at least for the most part), Also they have to frame certain research in a way that does blame âanthropromorphic causesâ.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨days⊠ago
âanthropromorphic causesâ.
âThis human-shapes molecule causes heart disease!â
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
I have a PhD because I thought I wanted to go into research. And while I loved research, that didnât come close to cancelling out how much I loathed all the non-research shit you need to do for funding and keeping a job.
Then I went from academia into corporate R&D, and realized I basically started to hate doing chemistry in general. Mostly because it reminded me of all the stuff I hated.
Im now super happy as a safety consultant, and my PhD sometimes helps in convincing people that I do in fact know more than them. It also covers an ugly spot in the wallpaper, a purpose it fulfills much more frequently.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
thats what i heard in college and in other discussion boards, basically just grant chasing for yourr career. and then i recall while i was in courses with these professors, they said they spend most of thier time chasing grants.