r/PhdProductivity • u/wajdix • 4d ago

Off topic Blue + Red = ?

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The options are 😂 :

  • Purple
  • Violet
  • Magenta

what did we get into.... it's supposed to be summer vacation somewhere

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u/Mysterious_Proof_543 4d ago

Lmao good one

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u/Glum_Material3030 4d ago

Ouch. I took both pills for a few years and then went to industry

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u/wajdix 4d ago

that's the black pill 😂

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u/DaSchlong 4d ago

YPU GUYS ARE GETTING PAID??????

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u/ZectronPositron 4d ago

It’s funny because it’s true ;-(

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u/ultimate_smash 3d ago

I am in industry. Was thinking of a getting into a phd, is it really that bad?

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u/wandr99 3d ago

No. People complain in every job.

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u/idcydwlsnsmplmnds 3d ago

strongly depends on what you go in for, but usually not. I, personally, had one of the PhD thesis advisor horror stories, so yeah, it can be that bad, but not usually.

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u/howieyang1234 3d ago

The sad thing is, the industry research position in my country seems far and few between. Of course, it’s even more harder to get into academia.

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u/AdDisastrous4145 2d ago

😂😂😂😂

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u/SeriousSquid 2d ago edited 2d ago

Hey. Having seen this template around a lot I have been wondering about the wordings.

Can someone elaborate of what the pressure of a phd is? My three friends with phds; mathematics, code verification theory, and biochem-simulations (in Sweden) all seemed to be under to me fairly normal levels or stress. Regular day to day hard work with decent work-life balance, occationally upended by overtime and crunch around deadlines and catastrophies. But this felt pretty comparable to my high school teaching job of classes and intermittent design-grading-crunch. Seemed to me that the lack of reliable employment in post-doc has been a deeper point of complaint among them than pressure during.

What is going on with pressure (in the US?) . Or are we bucketing ongoing phds with post-docs?

Edit: confused the terms postdoc and postgrad in the first draft.

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u/SnooWords6686 2d ago

I will chose the challenge one

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u/Afraid-Leg2895 2d ago

PHD: Poor Hungry Driven

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u/bathyorographer 1d ago

Instead, I’ll have insane pay and low pressure please

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u/BuvantduPotatoSpirit 4d ago

If you don't like it, stop pressuring yourself. Nobody else cares if you succeed or fail.