If anyone here has a PhD, can you share with us what made you decide to get a PhD?

Was it because

- better salary
- prestige
- job promotion
- genuine academic interest
- you didn't know what to do with life & you had a sponsor
- your father told you to

I did ask a couple of PhD's in real life. One said prestige, the other said better salary... which she now regrets becoz a lecturer's salary really sucks.

Does anyone really go for a PhD because they were truly interested in the knowledge?

Doing my PhD now.
You don't do one unless your interested in the academic line. The pay, benefits etc. don't really make it any better than other management-level jobs out there.

You mean teaching? Ya you probably can't get to the Dean level unless you have a Dr. title in your name.

I think in our society there's still the lack of interest in finding knowledge for knowledge's sake. Perhaps we haven't come out of the bottom of Maslow's triangle. Food and material gain is still our top worry rather than the search for truth?

Anyone doing it just for the sake of gaining knowledge, and getting the Dr title? lol.

by the way, like the quote you have in your sig.

"Doctor in training. The kind that doesn't help people."

lol.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side. The poverty of this society is when some idiots assuming education is a pursuit of financial security. U remember that until you die. Perhaps this could well explained why many idiots can't get to heaven despite everyday they pray. Amen


I quotes wrong person, shit

This post has been edited by communist892003: May 18 2010, 11:40 AM

Quote from James Baldwin?

You take Phd is to help the society back with your knowledge.
Stop thinking abt making money.
That's why Msia got no talented ppl

Other than make money thru teaching, I can only think of one practical reasons to get PhD... as a ticket out to find jobs in other countries.

u get phd to lose your hair to look like vin petrol

Hell yes

This post has been edited by communist892003: May 18 2010, 02:41 PM

I wouldn't mind if it gets me all the girls...

A real practical reason for us to get PhD is that we're trying to settle our anxiety or curiosity with knowledge, that's u can't live a day without it. As for you, I prefer u f*** up with so rich people to get rich, rather than investing on education which is so unrealistic. DATO is better than PhD you know. Another practical reason to get PhD is when you do not posses any talent, a calling of Doctor could be the alternative way to replace your talent which apparently not exist in you. So use your hard work to create an artificial talent.

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Added on May 18, 2010, 2:50 pmGirl like smart people, not nerdy. I never heard the thesis of ADA PHD, ADA Ah Moi. But i do heard there is a word saying, "ADA duit, ADA ah moi"

This post has been edited by communist892003: May 18 2010, 02:56 PM

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Added on May 19, 2010, 4:01 amArtificial talent



This post has been edited by den: May 19 2010, 04:23 AM

Must be tough being a girl. She'll be thinking who to marry ar... the smart one who will give me smart babies or the rich one who will give me money for shopping.

she will just marry the rich guy and have a affair with the smart one the get the smart babies

actually PhD is master ? e.g MBA is a phd ?

Phd is not easy to get. and not easy to undergo the minimum 3 years of granting it. So in this case, i would like to know, if we speand a rather long amount of time to study for Phd, and yet we can't come out with a proper study and finding, are we going to get nothing at the end of the course?

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Added on May 19, 2010, 10:16 amPhd is not a master, master is done before u did your Phd, with exception of a few cases where u could directly jump to Phd from your degree if u get 1st class.

hence, MBA is considered as master, not Phd.

This post has been edited by OMG!: May 19 2010, 10:16 AM

... and hope that the rich guy won't be smart enuf to do a DNA test on the baby.

If getting PhD using own knowledge AND able to benefits others, then thats okay
otherwise what for want to get a permanent head damage with not much benefit in the long run...

nowadays,

degree = diploma

master = degree

phd = master

i have a few friends doing phd now. of course, most probably they are joining education line. no need working experience in the real industry.

This post has been edited by den: May 20 2010, 09:32 AM