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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one enjoys getting their PhD. No one. You will be very much the odd person out trying to do it in your 50s. My DH had a postdoc once where one of his cohort was a late-in-life PhDer. Started after a finance career and a marriage implosion. Nice guy, never got an academic job or published anything. Hard to see the point of so much academic drudgery if it doesn't lead to anything.[/quote]

My kid who is a current PhD candidate has a very difference story to tell.  He is exceedingly happy and fulfilled, loves his lab and work.

While it isn't for everyone, one person's experience does not describe all.[/quote]

Wait until he tries to graduate. That's when the claws come out.[/quote]

That's ridiculous. My son just received his PhD in a science at a flagship. His advisor and department were very supportive throughout his program. Didn't cost him a penny. [/quote]

Might be because he's male. I don't think I know a single woman that didn't have an issue with their advisor and knew many that needed their advisor removed to graduate.[/quote]

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