Do you regret getting your Masters/Ph.d?

>>9112352
Yes, I regret getting a physics Msc (only managed 3.5 gpa, am now left with useless degree)

No.

>>9112352
math undergrad with masters in financial engineering
no

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>>9112352
I regret going to Med school.

>>9112445
why?

>>9112450
Whoring myself out just to earn 300K a year. More like 300K in debt.

>>9112352
Physics PhD reporting in: no regret!

>>9112369
Han on in there, anon. Can you continue to a PhD? Nil Carborundum.

I dropped out of a master's program that would have left me $50k in debt I do not regret it.

nope

i kind of want to get a PhD in econ. Would that be retarded?

>>9112462
dr's pay their student loans off at like 99% after a few years

>>9112757
>physics phd
>still posting on 4chan
why?
i wish i had the mental fortitude and the work ethic to be a phd
Don't worry, I've been in university for way too long - I know my heart isn't in it, before you offer words of encouragement, though i would have appreciated the sentiment regardless

>>9112352
Yes, because I burned out on the last leg of my PhD and walked away with a Masters

>>9112380
>financial engineering
What's this meme I've just heard of?

>>9114121
is this a joke lmao? finishing my phd was easier for me than the prior 8 years of fucking retardation in HS and undergrad. As well you think you just suddenly become a different person when you have a phd? If you like chan now and get one you are still going to like chan after the fact

CS Master left me with 13k euros in dept and now i'm doing a phd in computational Neuroscience. Earning 50k a Year

God bless germany

>>9112445
still in residency or past that?
i've heard 5-7 years after med school are basically utter hell

>>9114399
data science meme that became a thing a couple years
working as a quant or something similar is the closest we'll get to the 300k math meme

>>9114663
>50k a year with a masters in CS

fucking kek

>>9114674
i'm employed at the university and basically being paid that to study. so i think it bretty gud

where is that 300k meme from?

I did BS ChemE MS Materials. I wish I had done ChemE + CS of some sort.

>>9112352
No. I work on research that is directly relevant to my scientific interests and I have lots of freedom with respect to my work schedule. I'm pretty much just expected to produce results in a reasonable amount of time.

>>9112445
hey anon
If med school would cause 30k of debt instead of 300k, wouldn't you say it's fucking amazing?

>>9112352
Math PhD and I would give everything if I could go back and do something else

>>9112771
What are you doing now?

>>9112352
>implying anyone would want to have dinner with a Keynesian economist
bruh

>>9113579
If you're an econ undergrad, you pretty much have to commit to a PhD.

>>9115282
What about a business studies undergrad?

>>9115292
Studying business is a mistake in and of itself.

>>9115347
I know but mistakes been made

>>9114419
>is this a joke lmao? finishing my phd was easier for me than the prior 8 years of fucking retardation in HS and undergrad
you didn't say you were a social sciences phd
pls go and stay go

>>9115282
Econ. undergrad here

Why do i have to commit to a PhD?

Because undergrad is overesaturated and Econ. is only useful at PhD level?

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>>9114121
>why?
I kind of stumbled in here a few years ago, mainly in /sci/ and /g/. Lots of noise but also occasionally some good signal.

Doing a PhD was a slog and I was close to burned out at the end. I got better. So I try to encourage people taking the same route.

It takes its toll though, pay is low and most of my then fellow students are still unmarried.

>>9115471
Professors don't even need that much money. I think 90k is already a lot desu.

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>>9112352
No I left school young and worked hard.

In my mid 30s and make around 200k a year with good benefits.

>>9115738
Zero debt too

>>9114663
Where exactly

I'm at the middle of mine and some days are better than others. I went into it think I'd meet lots of cool people who share my interests but 95% of my peers are old/married, foreign (wouldn't matter but they seem to stick to their own groups), or painfully uninteresting/awkward (ex at dinner some girl explained the menu word for word for some fast food restaurant our state doesn't even have). It can be lonely. Science-wise I'm mostly happy but can feel myself getting burnt out.

>>9115623
You know what they say "pay peanuts, get monkeys." If life as a scientist does not pay (and even today you need a lot of idealism to stay) we will see new development coming to a halt. That means no new medicine, less cool stuff and entering stasis.

>>9116260

People who go into science don't do it for the money. It's never been profitable.

>>9116280
I know, I was there. Trouble is, even with all the idealism the money was just not enough to pay down my student loans. And I didn't spend any money on partying, alcohol, tobacco or girls. Most of my colleagues from that time are still unmarried. Who can get married on 2 - 3 year contracts at salary levels like this?

>>9114668
after u graduate med school you must do a MIN 1 year of residency (for senpai doctor) and you only get paid around ~40k a year.

next is 3 years minimum for a dumb speciality like derm

4 years for surgery residency

at this point you are in ur 30s rofl

>>9114364
That's still pretty fucking great though

>>9115738
Brainlet work drone

>>9115738
congrats, what do you do?

>>9112352
what is with this keynesian hatred of meatballs?