Why you shouldn't get a PhD
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Originally posted by Jacky Woo:
wonder this is all you can come up with your PHD studies
I see.
Eh... no link leh....
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he is purely being underpaid.
i believe his discipline belongs to one of the lower earning group
This isn't called underpaid. This is called voluntarily choosing a discipline that doesn't pay well in relative terms.
Ultimately, it's interest vs pay. If you are aiming for very high pay, that isn't the right path.
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Originally posted by eagle:
This isn't called underpaid. This is called voluntarily choosing a discipline that doesn't pay well in relative terms.
Ultimately, it's interest vs pay. If you are aiming for very high pay, that isn't the right path.
to be honest, its quite hard for them to take other route out unless they have contacts and $ capital to start their own company.
just like Fcukpap said,
PhD is another ball game....it only means u r a keen and lifelong researcher over something u r to think sleep eat with it for a lifetime....it also means queueing honestly for your whole life to attain a tenure position of professorship...and hopefully would see increasing citations of your work in the quantity of prestigious journals and a "Nobel" hopeful....in the remaining vanishing last years....
life is so happy without it....
so just have to continue with it
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I have told many before. I have an army friend who started a company 2.5 yrs ago with $100 (not $100k, a hundred dollars only), and is now grossing $600k revenue annually. Contacts? No. That guy started with selling at SgForums and HWZ marketplace.
Another army fren combined with his uni fren to come out with $10k, use SPRING Singapore's scheme to get additional $40k (for <26 yrs old) and NUS scheme to get free office. Start of 2011, his company was worth $3mil (Singtel bought a stake). Contacts? No, just his prowess in selling his idea to SPRING.
The $500k annual income PhD tutor started off earning $200 a month. Contacts? Built by himself. Capital? Zero.
Are these isolated examples? No. I can rattle off more. What's the difference between these people and the example you raised? These people don't give up, they don't resign themselves to their limited circumstances. The first guy failed in two businesses before succeeding. Heck, he don't even have a uni degree. The 2nd did only moderately well in school, but had good business sense and started reading up during army days. The 3rd quitted an engineering job due to extreme low pay and no future.
So to be extremely honest with you, while it is hard to break out of the box given limiting circumstances, it isn't anything impossible. And to be even more critical, if someone resigns himself/herself to not doing anything because of the extremely lame reason of "its quite hard for them to take other route out unless they have contacts and $ capital to start their own company", that person deserves to be just normal. And yes, to just resign to fate and continue with it as well. Nothing wrong if such a person is happy with the situation, but obviously, from your posts, your relative isn't.
As I have said earlier
It's always easier to spend time to complain, criticize, give unsolicited and unprofessional advice than to actually spend time to do the job.
I would like to add too that it is always easier to put the blame on your current situation to others than to attempt taking action to rectify it.
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so are you working as a research fellow at NUS or NTU now? NTU more likely?
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Originally posted by eagle:
I have told many before. I have an army friend who started a company 2.5 yrs ago with $100 (not $100k, a hundred dollars only), and is now grossing $600k revenue annually. Contacts? No. That guy started with selling at SgForums and HWZ marketplace.
Another army fren combined with his uni fren to come out with $10k, use SPRING Singapore's scheme to get additional $40k (for <26 yrs old) and NUS scheme to get free office. Start of 2011, his company was worth $3mil (Singtel bought a stake). Contacts? No, just his prowess in selling his idea to SPRING.
The $500k annual income PhD tutor started off earning $200 a month. Contacts? Built by himself. Capital? Zero.
Are these isolated examples? No. I can rattle off more. What's the difference between these people and the example you raised? These people don't give up, they don't resign themselves to their limited circumstances. The first guy failed in two businesses before succeeding. Heck, he don't even have a uni degree. The 2nd did only moderately well in school, but had good business sense and started reading up during army days. The 3rd quitted an engineering job due to extreme low pay and no future.
So to be extremely honest with you, while it is hard to break out of the box given limiting circumstances, it isn't anything impossible. And to be even more critical, if someone resigns himself/herself to not doing anything because of the extremely lame reason of "its quite hard for them to take other route out unless they have contacts and $ capital to start their own company", that person deserves to be just normal. And yes, to just resign to fate and continue with it as well. Nothing wrong if such a person is happy with the situation, but obviously, from your posts, your relative isn't.
As I have said earlier
I would like to add too that it is always easier to put the blame on your current situation to others than to attempt taking action to rectify it.
well-said eagle. You shall be the next 500K tutor in Singapore. IF I were to look for business partners, I will look for ppl like u.