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I know you intended to give a balanced overview, I really do. You have to understand that when OP reads what you wrote, her only takeaway is going to be “if I follow my passion, everything will work out!” But OP is never going to get a job in her field that doesn’t require food stamps. It’s not like physics where people will just hire you straight into a data science position regardless of your industry knowledge.[/quote]
Different physics PhD poster, and data science is not a job in the field of physics either. We are all saying that she has to plan ahead for the reality that she will almost certainly not be a professor in her field. I can say that some people with particularly quantitative social science PhDs can find data science positions...and there are also many other routes to employment with a PhD in the social sciences. OP should navigate her PhD with eyes wide open to the reality of what lays on the other side. If she wants to pursue her PhD anyway, that's her decision. I think academia is completely f'ed up, and American universities basically lie to every PhD student who matriculates. But it would also be a sad world if no one who was interested in contributing new knowledge to the field pursued those interests...I just think we need to be strong advocates for ourselves...because no one is looking out for us.[/quote]

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