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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dunno I started my assistant professor job at 27 making $210k and now make 300k, tenured and almost impossible to fire, and i work about 10 hours per week. But you do you OP[/quote]

Yeah and for every "you" there are hundreds of PhDs who did not get any kind of professor job. You must have been on hiring committees, and surely you know how bad it really is.

Plus it sounds like your PhD was in STEM and if you'd taken the same BS / MS into industry you'd be making even more. But you did you.[/quote]

Isn't that the case with every domain?  If you study English, you end up as a copywriter/proposal writer and live at the bottom of the totem pole.  if you keep studying and get a PhD in English, you may not get a teaching job but that writing was on the wall the day you signed up to study English in undergrad, wasn't it?

With other domains (e.g. CS), it's a QOL decision.  Grind it out in until 30, you are set for life (lower pay, yes, but not a code-monkey), job security, strong retirement benefits, respect in society, etc.  At 40, you could be making $1M at google (very, very few get there) or be a full prof. at a university advising the google department leads on the future of technology making $500K.  If you get lucky with a couple of patents, you could become a multi-millionaire too..[/quote]

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