- FlameBurningOrange ( @FlameBurningOrange@lemmynsfw.com ) English18•8 months ago
But surely everyone greets you by saying “Dr. Fossilesque, I presume?”.
That alone has got to be worth the overqualification issues.
Finishing up my thesis but, god I hope not. Those people are insufferable.
- NegativeLookBehind ( @NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social ) 4•8 months ago
What will you be doctoring?
- remotelove ( @remotelove@lemmy.ca ) English4•8 months ago
Probably other doctors.
That’s right, at the Skool of Hard Knocks.
- bdonvr ( @bdonvr@thelemmy.club ) English16•8 months ago
And a lot of debt, usually. Don’t forget that one.
- vzq ( @vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English21•8 months ago
I got paid for the PhD. Not as much as I would have earned as a computer button pusher, but enough to live on.
- gandalf_der_12te ( @gandalf_der_12te@feddit.de ) English7•8 months ago
I honestly believe that the usefulness of a specific piece of knowledge resembles the logarithmic curve, the higher your education already is.
- chicken ( @chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English7•8 months ago
I do not regret not going to grad school
- crispy_kilt ( @crispy_kilt@feddit.de ) English6•8 months ago
If I were* smarter
When using be in an if clause for an unreal conditional sentence, always conjugate it as were, no matter what the subject is. Even if the subject is first-person singular (I) or third-person singular (he, she, or it), still use were with an if clause in unreal conditional sentences.
https://www.grammarly.com/blog/conditional-sentences-was-instead-of-were/
TIL: This is an artefact of my regional dialect. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/language-variation-and-change/article/abs/new-role-for-an-ancient-variable-in-appalachia-paradigm-leveling-and-standardization-in-west-virginia/3F069F1A76FBFFB75566131FB9D955C9 Apparently, the leveled was is a thing.
- noctisatrae ( @noctisatrae@beehaw.org ) English1•8 months ago
If you found it interesting and enriching to do that’s the most important shit. You have the opportunity to research a subject you like now I guess at least