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@retoor > 'I saw people lose respect straight while looking in theur eyes when I told what I've studied.'.
That's fucked up.
Skills are way more important than some paper in my book.
Hell, there are way too many idiots who graduated universities nowadays, so yeah... I'd definitely !trust the paper alone.
N: 'I know Kung Fu'.
M: 'Show Me'.
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@retoor My guesses would be either they're cheating, or the lowered bar.
Yes, they could be genuinely good at it, too, but we were talking about the bad ones, so this just doesn't apply. -
It's difficult to work off of the information you gave out. We don't know your inner life details, rather only the bits you chose to share with us.
So no matter what anyone says, take it with a mountain sized grain of salt.
I'd move out and get a decent wage paying job tbh. @retoor A PhD is not a fucking guarantee that everyone would take you seriously for the rest of your life. Your validation comes from within, not from other people. -
@NoMad finish the PhD if you don't do it now you're not going to finish it, and by the sound of it you'll regret it.
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@retoor as someone one who got his piece of paper, I would never have considered the people skilled at the end, except maybe one or two. And I question anyone's competence if they bring "studies" into a skill debate. In the end though, having a basic degree of anything does give a lot of opportunities, the only reason I continued with my studies since I started working as soon as I turned 18 by being recommended for the position (ignoring all the voluntary work I did for school). And it's a general IT degree, not even a programming one.
I am so confused about what I'm doing in the near future. I want to get out of this hellhole but there's a slight chance I could finish my PhD with someone, who's actually not a bad dude.(My current supervisor is... not helpful) But I will have to stay here and work very hard and not get paid, but PhD is over in less than a year. I'm fucked with system implementation tho, since I'll be changing directions and have to start fresh.
I could also get a job and move away, and be paid a decent wage. But then there's no telling when I'm gonna finish the PhD.
Which would you choose if you were me? Which one should I pursue?
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