virtuocity
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Has anyone studied a PhD course, and did they find it useful/worthwhile?
PhD anyone?
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IanG
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Studied, supervised, examined, assessed & managed doctoral programmes. I found it very useful and great fun, but I did do it directly after my 1st degree.
Its benefits are quite subject specific.
IanG ( but not IainG !)
Tashyboy
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Yup since I finished at the pit I got a PHD In Polishing Hoovering & Dusting.
drdel
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Snap, almost exact same story.
You need to really want to do it and it must relate to what you want to do with in your field.
Norrin Radd
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PHD ,top band back in the 70`s ,jim diamond fronted them .
virtuocity
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Not bothered about a career, I already do my dream job whilst studying. This would be purely for the sheer achievement and because there are a number of things I'd like to devote a couple of years to researching. I would be self-funding (not cheap) as I wouldn't want to get involved in a research project that I didn't have much enthusiasm for, so I'm debating whether it's worth it.
why not then. i was an economist so was worth it while i worked in the city, but hated it with a passion as i got older.
always had an interest in History, wish I'd done it in that instead.
Ethan
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Depends. I work with a lot of PhD grads and some are excellent and add great value and others don't. Need to know what the subject will be and what career you want from it.
Likewise MBAs.
SwingsitlikeHogan
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At the end of my degree I started doing one in nonlinear partial differential equations. Rather missed not doing it as I enjoyed that sort of stuff - but I decided to get a job as I was a little older when I got my degree (took me 8 yrs after changing course four years in). Fortunately the job I got really pushed my mathematics (mostly my statistics) so in the end my job probably made up for not doing the PhD as the projects I worked on were PhD level (quite of few of my mates at work used their projects as a basis for their PhD).
I do regret a bit that I'm not doing a more mathematics-based job these days.
I do regret a bit that I'm not doing a more mathematics-based job these days.
