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Originally posted by onewhippedpuppy
What's wrong with encouraging students to take the hard road, and to fill a need as they do so? Most people I know went to school and got a business degree, now they're making $25k as an assistant manager at Target.
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It not such a hard road if you look at the economics of it: a graduate student in science gets paid $20k/year for 4 years during his phD, then can either do a post-doc that is paid $35-55k/yr for 1-2 years depending where he lands, and then he can start a career at $65-70k/year.
That sound a whole lot better to me than getting stuck in a lower paying job for life, even if you started higher after 4 years of cruising in college.
Aurel