The benefits of the long haul PhD
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Now that my ace rival for the hearts and minds of Australia’s business communicators — Trevor ‘Hamster Juggler’ Cook — has joined the ranks of the idle rich (aka PhD students) I was scouring the web for an image of a PhD floppy hat and came across this image from PhDCentral.com (a full-size version is here):
What I find interesting, hence why I have enlarged this particular part of the image, is the earnings a ‘typical’ PhD holder can expect to receive and his/her unemployment rate (1.4% compared to 1.7% for Masters Degree holders, and 6.8% for those who left high school before completing it).
If it was a figure from a recruitment agency or jobs board I might have some doubts, but the source seems credible, albeit based on 2006 figures. I wonder what the stats are like for Australia…
But then again, why bother struggling and straining and sweating with all this reading and research an’ stuff?
An email arrived in my inbox today that promised to relieve me of the heartache that normally accompanies such a long and lonely path as a doctorate.
Genevieve Gaston kindly let me know of the existence of a coveted ‘inside track’:
Fast online degree from your home or office
Obtain an accredited degree in under 30 days
Call 24/7 on….
For US: 1-419-735-9250
Outside US: +1-419-735-9250
I’m just putting aside some of the 20 cent pieces I’d normally put in the electricity meter to save and make that call…
