Don’t Get a PhD

It’s a bad idea for almost everyone.

I have a doctorate, otherwise known as a PhD, which stands for Doctor of Philosophy, (but in Latin). It took me from September 2005 to the very end of 2011 to complete, so that’s just over six years, with the official graduation taking place in the summer of 2012. I did the work full time until 2010, when I got a job in my field but it required the PhD to be finished in order to keep the job. Talk about stress! I had a hard time in my program, but please don’t think that this post comes from a place of bitterness. I have largely healed my psychic wounds from the…