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I'm a first-year PhD student now, and so far I love it. So far. Like others have posted ahead of me, I look to teach at the university level, which is why I'm pursuing the PhD. Doesn't hurt that, like I said, I love my subject area.
I think a PhD in the 'hard sciences' is valuable- but in the 'soft sciences', no. We've just hired an education PhD, and she is in a word: unbearable. Sadly, she has lots of textbook knowledge, but none of the real world skills needed to function in the workplace. She insists on being called 'Dr. Smith'...we just roll our eyes.
Ask her where she attended medical school, and watch her get all flustered when she says," Well, I didn't.....
That is quite silly
I know many, many people with graduate degrees, some with multiple ones, that are far from pompous or terrors. Education does not equal attitude, people just go label a bit too much imo.
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Originally Posted by artsyguy
Does your workplace involve hard sciences? I'm not understanding your point. It sounds like you hate her attitude more than her "textbook knowledge."
I know how people with graduate degrees are. They are pompous terrors.
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Like others have posted ahead of me, I look to teach at the university level, which is why I'm pursuing the PhD. Doesn't hurt that, like I said, I love my subject area.
