atomicbocks

I am going on 18 months. I have had 2 interviews. You are right, this is the worst job market I have had to participate in in the 15 years I have been working.

I haven’t experienced this problem yet and I am in my 30s.

Neo-liberal maybe. But just about every economist I have heard says the wealth disparity is bad.

At least I actually read your comments. Even though they didn’t have anything to do with the class war I was talking about and you come off like an uppity douche.

My original comment was about what was being lost in addition to those who have a PhD. About their families and what it took from them for that person to get a PhD.

At this point I don’t even think you read my comment. You are being an ass about having tuition covered like that’s all that it takes to get a PhD. You didn’t contradict me you moved the goalpost and won’t accept it when I try to move them back. I literally have family with a PhD in higher education administration who I find far more trustworthy on this subject than a random internet asshole who has offered nothing but “trust me bro”.

The bottom line is that graduate degrees are expensive and tuition is only part of what it takes. If you personally are too blind to see what was sacrificed by others for you to go through this then I feel sorry for those people.

I bet it’s still less than 25%. Just a SWAG though.

Nonetheless, I would be willing to bet that only a single digit percentage of people on this planet have seen this nearly 30 year-old movie.

I appreciate your response. Also, that you seem to be being more cordial than other people in this thread. However, I’m unable to find anything in the report that you linked that Indicates that PhD students aren’t taking out loans. The report seems to lump masters and PhD students together and indicates that they’re taking out many times higher loans than undergraduate students. Perhaps I just missed the part that shows that.

More to my original point though, even what you are describing would be incredibly expensive. And require that my wife find a job there too. Which is why I mentioned families in my original comment. In order for anybody to get a PhD their parents or spouse has to be able to support that person including moving and having a job themselves or whatever that entails.

My edit didn’t expand anything. I was already talking about how this affected people’s families and going far beyond simple tuition affording. Even if your tuition is covered you still have to be able to afford to not have a full-time job that pays anything for that amount of time. I feel like you’re being intentionally obtuse.

Rufus is cool. If you want to customize the install more, including slipstreaming drivers and updates, there is also NTLite. Back in the day we used it to add the Intel hard drive drivers to XP installers to downgrade Vista machines.

I did search this for the largest institution in my state before I made the comment. PhD’s are more expensive there per credit hour than masters degrees. The only thing I have found searching what you’ve indicated is scholarships or GAs. Not how much tuition actually costs.

I only know one person who even was a graduate assistant while getting a PhD so this is just uninformed at best.

Edit: This person did their post-doc at Stanford in neuroscience. I specifically asked them about this some time ago and they told me that their tuition was indeed covered by them being a GA. However, due to changes in the tax code that’s considered income. So they owe taxes like they were making six figures a year. The only reason this person has been able to afford this is because their parents are rich. This was the main part of my point, you have to be rich or lucky to get a graduate degree in the United States regardless of how your tuition is paid for.

The reason I said this was uninformed is because I know far more people who have gotten PhD‘s who are simply up to their eyeballs in student debt. I realize that this is anecdotal but none of the research that I’ve been presented or seen myself indicates to me that this or having rich parents is not the norm.