{"id":14242,"date":"2013-10-15T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=14242"},"modified":"2013-10-15T03:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T08:00:56","slug":"piled-high-and-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14242","title":{"rendered":"Piled High and Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itsokaytobesmart.com\/post\/63599023575\/i-get-this-question-a-lot-should-i-go-get-a\">I get this question a lot: &#8220;Should I go get a PhD?&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have never seen a convincing case that getting a PhD is something that you need to get if you\u2019re not going to be a prof.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While Joe cites a harsh fact in the conclusion \u2014 that a faculty position is what a minority of PhD recipients achieve \u2014 I don&#8217;t get the above quote. (Others often couple this with the sentiment that not getting a faculty position is failure, which is thankfully absent here) It&#8217;s like there&#8217;s this great blind spot about research, by most people blogging about research \u2014 they imply that it&#8217;s all done by university faculty.  A great many people do research in government labs (well, not so much now in the US, what with the shutdown and all) and in private industry. I&#8217;m not sure what Joe would find convincing. When an announcement asks for a certain level of experience, I suppose technically one could argue that it need not come from graduate school or a post-doc, but that just creates a circular argument about how a person got that experience in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a prof, and you&#8217;d better believe my job requires a PhD. I know\/am acquainted with many people to which this applies.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I get this question a lot: &#8220;Should I go get a PhD?&#8221; I have never seen a convincing case that getting a PhD is something that you need to get if you\u2019re not going to be a prof. While Joe &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/14242\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}