From the discussion here, it seems that HN turns out to be a very money-centric place. Somewhat surprising.
It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research. It’s always talked about as if getting a PhD is just another rung in a long ladder towards… earning a lot of money? Not only that — it’s apparently such an obvious fact that it’s an unacknowledged (though implicitly present) assumption in almost every comment here.
The obsession with the ‘STEM’ acronym (well, really the grouping rather than the name) also winds me up, but I better not go there…
It doesn’t even seem to occur to people that one might pursue a doctoral degree because one is interested in the subject and wants to do research. It’s always talked about as if getting a PhD is just another rung in a long ladder towards… earning a lot of money? Not only that — it’s apparently such an obvious fact that it’s an unacknowledged (though implicitly present) assumption in almost every comment here.
The obsession with the ‘STEM’ acronym (well, really the grouping rather than the name) also winds me up, but I better not go there…