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How is this different than telling people to do a PhD, then run your own research group as a professor, get tenure and get lifetime job security? Or work in st
by j7ake 3mo ago
How is this different than telling people to do a PhD, then run your own research group as a professor, get tenure and get lifetime job security?
Or work in start up, get acquired, and chill after ?
- weakened_malloc 3mo agoLook, I'm not from the US, I'm guessing maybe the pay for tradesmen isn't as high as in Australia. But what you're suggesting as a comparison involves a pretty high degree of variance and odds are stacked against you. You need to get into a good PhD program, get funding, compete against everyone else doing those things and so on. The path I outlined in my OP is a _very_ common path that people take in Australia and not at all unrealistic. The barrier to entry is drastically lower, and the access to funding/capital is far easier.