{"id":717,"date":"2008-08-29T03:59:52","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T08:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=717"},"modified":"2008-08-29T03:59:52","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T08:59:52","slug":"just-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/717","title":{"rendered":"Just Do It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The question asked at incoherently scattered ponderings:  <a href=\"http:\/\/incoherently-scattered.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/why-would-anyone-want-to-get-phd-in.html\">Why would anyone want to get a PhD in sciences?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he bottom line is that 10 years later non-PhD path can provide on the order of 0.5 million more in earnings than the PhD path. And one could argue that the career options after completing PhD and 1 or 2 postdocs are still quite bleak.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, a PhD doesn&#8217;t get you more money.  What it tends to get you is interesting work \u2014 there are opportunities that become possible with a doctorate that won&#8217;t be there without treading that path.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The question asked at incoherently scattered ponderings: Why would anyone want to get a PhD in sciences? [T]he bottom line is that 10 years later non-PhD path can provide on the order of 0.5 million more in earnings than the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/717\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","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=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}