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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not the narrow field thing that gets you. It's the question if why am I here. You're going to be making a Mac of 40000 when you could be getting at least 80000 in private industry. You'll probably fail an exam, get a paper rejected, ultimately come to this thing of why am I here. And if you can't answer that, you'll probably leave. I have a PhD and I really wanted it. I wanted it in the core of myself. It was hard to imagine me doing what I wanted to do without a PhD.

I found a topic that I could work with enough to get out and got out. But it's not an easy road. [/quote]

Can you please elaborate on what you wanted to do?[/quote]

Scientific research in a non academic environment. I was thinking of Bell labs or IBM research or a lot of the trends that we are seeing right now in AI. I wanted to be involved in those areas. Obviously I didn't know Google and other companies would be so dominant but Microsoft was big at the time and this was during the dot com boom where we were seeing a lot of the economic rewards of tech so I was confident there was a possibility of a lucrative career outside of academia. [/quote]

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