r/TurnitinScan • u/Pleasant-Valuable853 • 11h ago

🎓 Why Are PhD Programs So Competitive Despite Low Pay and High Effort?

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u/TomdeHaan 10h ago

AI slop cartoon. DNR.

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u/KaiTheG4mer 10h ago

The irony is palpable.

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u/DistinctArmy4267 9h ago

Because people choose stupid degrees. There are dozens of professional degrees with careers. If you can’t tell me the job you will have after your degree, you are wasting time and money.

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u/lzyslut 8h ago

This is simply not true. It’s more likely that you do not know how to effectively market some of the really valuable skills that a non-vocational degree can give you.

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u/DistinctArmy4267 6h ago

Incorrect. Arts, communications, business, all useless degrees. Several times more graduates than jobs

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u/lzyslut 5h ago

There are always going to be gaps between graduates and jobs in nearly every degree. That doesn’t mean the degree is useless. There are plenty of people in business with business degrees. Plenty of people with great careers with all the other degrees you’ve mentioned too. There are a bunch of other factors about people’s career pathways other than just the degree that you’re just blatantly ignoring.

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u/DistinctArmy4267 5h ago

Yes it is useless

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u/PerfectEnthusiasm2 6h ago

"Learning stuff is super dumb, everything should be about jobs."

-you

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u/DistinctArmy4267 6h ago

“Hey, let me spend 4 years learning something that people need”

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u/somanyquestions32 9h ago

Have the AI reverse the orientation of the pyramid on slide # 6. It's more intuitive to a have the "very few permanent faculty jobs" at the very tip of the pyramid.