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[–] [email protected] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Nah.

I quit grad school and made 250k in California smoking weed everyday. My postdoc buddies are still stuck in publish or perish and teaching in no name European universities.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Can you give me a reference? I too want to make $250k by smoking weed

[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Become a Java programmer at a large enterprise

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago

Oh wow you literally meant smoking weed everyday

[–] [email protected] 12 points 9 months ago

Get good at programming systems that mix audio and control stage lighting, speakers, distortion effects, etc.

The move to California.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

Leaving academia was definitely one of the best choices I ever made for my (physical, mental and financial) health.

I don't regret doing my PhD, but I definitely spent two years too many on the postdoc treadmill.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

Nah, that's just an integer underflow.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

-2147483648→+2147483647

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yet you are still a broke ass fuck. You just found salvation in instant ramen.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Ramen is a case study to prove the phrase "you can't polish shit" wrong.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Hang in there, @fossilesque

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

I cri everitiem

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Starting now, can't wait for the eternal pressure and existential dread!