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You can ask what are official PhD times and what are typical (usually: longer). …

All law related to employment (e.g. taxes, eligibility for retirement and unemployment benefits) do depend on the actual status of a PhD student. It depends as well on a country, obviously. …

Outreach - to start with, once you know something worth sharing (and for sure you do, as you are a PhD student), the biggest thing is your motivation and drive for it. …

However, time management is an issue - both PhD and start-up are things with unbounded times - so always competing with each other. … Source: I'm a PhD student running a sort of a start-up project (Confrenzy). EDIT: Now failed, or frozen. …

I think the most important is: Are you happy with your PhD in general? It covers a lot of issues, but usually you don't want to do a PhD in a place where students are unhappy and frustrated. … You may expect a very ambitious programme, or a PhD-life balance. You may like to teach, or you may like to keep it at minimum. …

It happens that people change their PhD programs (I know a few.) … See e.g.: current PhD applicant applying to another university Apply to PhD after expulsion from another Switching from one area of graduate study to another? …

There are two factors: looking for a university and a research group, having time for the formal admission process. I will start for the later, as it is simpler. It depends on place, but some typ …

In UK and US, MSc is a part of PhD, so typically you do don't need one to start. …

Moreover, one of he key dangers of PhD in academic career in general is that we tie our academic success (grant, paper, fellowship) with sense of own value. …

I cannot answer the first question, because it depends mostly of the result itself (if it is strong enough, interesting for reasonably wide audience and can make sense when condensed to 4 pages). Tak …

Focus on facts, rather than your emotional impressions. Don't try to overgeneralize. Say what didn't work for you, rather than imply that it does not work for everyone (unless everyone agrees) or it …

The last one seems to be one where a PhD student can have an edge (over s standard programmer) due to being immersed with different numerical tools (and general research methodology, etc). … There are even some courses aimed at PhD graduates, for example Insight Data Science Fellows Program (or BigDive, which is more general, but I wholeheartedly recommend it, as an alumnus). …

Thesis is a good place to place things not yet developed enough to make a full paper. If it is at least tangentially related to you thesis topic, just add a relevant (sub)section (e.g. in further dis …

If I had had a choice, I would have chosen to write a cumulative thesis. Results are in the papers. And converting papers into a monograph takes a lot of time with relatively low added value. (When …

From what you describe, i.e. preferring learning by doing rather than first getting strong theoretical foundations, you seem to be more a hacker than a academician. From Hackers and Painters by Paul …