On 15/02/2015 12:57, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

>
> According to the Academia Stack Exchange portal, it seems if you have a
> PhD, everybody immediately assumes you're going to be hellishly
> expensive to hire and summarily drops you from consideration.
>

That does not fit in with my experience. True often PhD's end up at the 
top of the pile but lots of them do lesser jobs. They just have a PhD. 
It does not rule them out from doing jobs they are "over qualified" for.


> Unless you want to work in the finance industry, which only exists in
> London.
>

I am beginning to get the feeling that you are a member of a sect that 
vilifies London as a pit of depravity.


>>> Fun fact: They stopped giving out university grants just a year or two
>>> before I started university. I AM STILL PAYING FOR MY TUITION! More than
>>> a decade later... *sigh*
>>>
>>
>> Scandalous!
>
> Hey, I spent 10 years earning minimum wage, so...

Even more scandalous.

>
>>> Favourite anecdote:
>>
>> It only saddens me it does not surprise me.
>
> In fairness, while he only said a few sentences, it was immediately
> clear to me that he knew what he was talking about. As in, logarithms
> aren't just something he heard about once, he actually *understood*
> them. (As opposed to merely rote-memorising some facts about them.)


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Regards
     Stephen

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