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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sounds like the problem is setting post-graduate career expectations too narrowly, not in pursuing a PhD itself.[/quote]

do you actually have a phd?

the process of getting one is what produces "narrow career expectations". in many fields the only way you can do what you just spent at least 5 years doing is to be a professor at a research university. Also the only people you know in your field are your professors who think theirs is the best job in the world and who can't imagine non academic job being intellectually stimulating. also all your peers are aspiring academics. everyone around you wants it and thinks it's the best thing. those who change mind usually leave early in the program so they are not helpful either.

it's not like it has to be that way but after people spend a lot of time in phd programs their perspectives becomes kind of twisted. a lot has been written about phds' inability to abandon their academic dreams which is precisely why you can pay adjuncts minimum wage. Too many highly educated people who can't let go of their academic dreams.[/quote]

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