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anbar_a@caltech.edu (A. D. Anbar) wrote:
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>
>So, what's your point?
>
>A Ph.D. is not about money, and never has been. It's about the passionate
>pursuit of knowledge. If that pursuit, coupled to a solid income, is not
>as attractive to you as a pile of cash, then you should reconsider what
>you're doing. Find a way to exploit whatever talent or smarts you have, or
>go get training in a highly paid trade (e.g. medicine).
>


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No, That is not the issue! The talk was about getting enough money to make a living, not 
surplus to buy a porsche or do other things like this. When you are 10 hours a day in the lab 
and work another 4 hours at home reading papers etc. there's little time and less energy to do 
another job for earning your living. Of course, one could do tht. But the benefit would be that 
you would need longer time for finishing your degree.
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