Grad school sucks

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Seriously. You will be taken advantage of. It is stressful. Make sure your degree has a work trajectory. I’m in my MA but might need a PhD. WatchMe apply for one in the fall so i can get a job lamo. Consider your degree and if it’s important to have work experience before grad school. That is all.

**This thread was edited on Mar 4th 2020 at 1:04:49am
 
Do you get a stipend? Either way, push through it assuming the outcome is worth it. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to quit my degree- glad I didn't.
 
14114268:BST_Police said:
Do you get a stipend? Either way, push through it assuming the outcome is worth it. I can't tell you how many times I wanted to quit my degree- glad I didn't.
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No stipend. Instead I work full time as a program coordinater for a different department.

**This post was edited on Mar 4th 2020 at 1:43:21am
 
Get your shit together, keep your chin up, and be happy that you get to be involved in academia for a few more years before having your soul and happiness sucked out of you by a 40hr/wk job where you may even work in social isolation without any effective collaboration because the closest co-worker in age to you is still 40 years older. But you stay there because financial comfort living in the place you want to makes you grasp on to that silver lining of happiness even though you aren't even sure if you completely understand how or if experiencing happiness will ever be possible again. I'm obviously projecting just a lil bit here tho
 
14114277:No.Quarter said:
Get your shit together, keep your chin up, and be happy that you get to be involved in academia for a few more years before having your soul and happiness sucked out of you by a 40hr/wk job where you may even work in social isolation without any effective collaboration because the closest co-worker in age to you is still 40 years older. But you stay there because financial comfort living in the place you want to makes you grasp on to that silver lining of happiness even though you aren't even sure if you completely understand how or if experiencing happiness will ever be possible again. I'm obviously projecting just a lil bit here tho
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Hahahahaha i work 40 hours a week on top of grad school in academia.
 
You must be some kind of non-STEM student right? If not, that's weird. I'm a PhD student in molecular genetics and feel like I have none of those issues, other then stress obviously. And the stipend doesn't make you rich but at least I have one, I know an art history PhD student and she has to work a different job alongside her PhD work. And honestly, I wouldn't do anything else, I like my field.
 
14114596:a_pla5tic_bag said:
You must be some kind of non-STEM student right? If not, that's weird. I'm a PhD student in molecular genetics and feel like I have none of those issues, other then stress obviously. And the stipend doesn't make you rich but at least I have one, I know an art history PhD student and she has to work a different job alongside her PhD work. And honestly, I wouldn't do anything else, I like my field.
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I’m an environmental historian, while I can likely get a job with my MA the good positions (Smithsonian, etc) all require PhD. This makes sense, our department stressed doing an MA over a PhD because it’s easy to over qualify yourself in history since there aren't many jobs in it. In terms of taken advantage of, I was asked to survey a forest service cabin that is eligible to be entered onto the historic registrar/can be rented out soon once conservation happens. I was initially asked to survey, not prepare the document for preservation. Super cool, but a bunch of work since I have a full-time job as well. Federal reports are meticulous and require great detail, something I really don't have the time to dedicate to it.

**This post was edited on Mar 5th 2020 at 11:21:22am
 
med student here, can confirm gradschool sucks. To be fair I'm really enjoying what I'm learning but sometimes I miss the good ole days. Went from skiing ~100 days a year to
 
14114699:Chinchi said:
med student here, can confirm gradschool sucks. To be fair I'm really enjoying what I'm learning but sometimes I miss the good ole days. Went from skiing ~100 days a year to
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Med School is a whole other beast. Props to you.

14114704:SofaKingSick said:
dude plus you have to spend time around grad students :(
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Thankfully my department is super cool, but yeah, this.
 
14114622:safarisam said:
environmental historian

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I had to google exactly what this entails. It for sure sounds like a field with no jobs and where the PhDs are unfunded. Sounds rough, sucks when what you like doing has a shit job market. I'm lucky I liked a field that's booming.
 
14114908:a_pla5tic_bag said:
I had to google exactly what this entails. It for sure sounds like a field with no jobs and where the PhDs are unfunded. Sounds rough, sucks when what you like doing has a shit job market. I'm lucky I liked a field that's booming.
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Hand sanitizer production?
 
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