Timeline for Is a PhD right for you if you hate doing research in your free time but love doing it as a job?
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| Jun 26, 2023 at 11:50 | comment | added | Oбжорoв | @StephanKolassa You can just as well have have career options for run of the mill academics if you are willing to work at lower tier institutions. Obviously getting tenure at IAS is not for everyone, but neither is becoming a member of of the expo of Google. | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 20:08 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @Oбжорoв: actually, yes, I do. I am doing so. The difference is that industry offers more career options for run-of-the-mill performers, whereas academia is much more up-or-out. You either make tenure or end up either leaving academia, or living more or less on the fringes. Compare the German limits on getting time-limited academic positions. I would say the better comparison to academia would be classical consultancies, with an absolute and explicit up-or-out philosophy. | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 11:57 | comment | added | Oбжорoв | @StephanKolassa Do you really think you can have a successful career in industry working 40 hours a week? | |
| Jun 25, 2023 at 9:06 | comment | added | Stephan Kolassa | @Daron: that is absolutely true. But in many (perhaps not all) academic fields, there is a cutthroat competition, because there are far more people that would like to continue with an academic career than there are positions, so if you want to get one of those scarce positions, you do have to compete with those top performers. | |
| Jun 24, 2023 at 20:37 | comment | added | Daron | The vast majority of people are "not top performers". | |
| Jan 1, 2015 at 18:47 | comment | added | mightypile | Research is so multifaceted. When I entered our program, I was reading textbooks constantly. Then I was learning how others did things in their labs. Then I was neck deep in my own projects generating data for a year. Then I was analyzing those data for months. Now I spend most time writing combined with reading for appropriate citations. I haven't generated data in over a year. The program and field of study will dictate much of this schedule, but where that time goes could change dramatically and repeatedly as(if) you move from junior graduate student to faculty. | |
| Sep 3, 2014 at 6:41 | comment | added | Herman Toothrot | This answers seems very strictly related to the US, and perhaps a few other countries. It is quite possible to do research 9-5, I am thinking a public job for example. | |
| Aug 27, 2014 at 14:53 | vote | accept | ksm001 | ||
| Aug 26, 2014 at 21:52 | comment | added | Davidmh | On the other hand, working much more than 40 h will decrease your performance. Big tech companies, that are probably the closest environment to academia, tend to limit the time their employees work. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 16:14 | comment | added | user18072 | Yeah, competitive careers are also more work. Turns out we failed at the whole "so we have all this leisure time now, right?" thing. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 15:57 | comment | added | kleineg | Note many careers expect more than 40 hours a week of work. In some cases substantially more. | |
| Aug 26, 2014 at 10:04 | history | answered | Stephan Kolassa | CC BY-SA 3.0 |