• dingus@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I don’t buy this as a blanket statement. It highly depends on what sort of educational track you’re pursuing.

        At least in the US, there are many graduate level healthcare degrees out there that require you to pay for them. Yet they net a well paying career. Ex: physician associate, anesthesia assistant

        If you’re specifically referring to research-focused graduate degrees and not job-focused graduate degrees, then I agree with you.

  • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    There’s only so much funding to go around. Unfortunately, it’s just the way it works right now, so you have to be careful who you let work on your projects. If you don’t produce results, the funding agency is unlikely to give you funding next time you ask for a grant. Ergo, you have to be stingy about who you have work on projects funded by grants.

    Source: My wife is a professor, and she always complains about the funding models she has to deal with.

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      1 year ago

      I know a lot of scientists who were already getting let go around the winter because finding dried up.

      And with the way the US is going, that well continues to shrink.

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        1 year ago

        But at least, on the bright side…

        Hrm, hold on a moment…

        I can’t seem to find one of those.:-(