re: #272 klys

Thank you! It has been a stupidly long and hard slog, complicated by the fact that I figured out halfway through that I don’t like research and don’t particularly want to work in this field anymore. But I decided at age 4 that I was going to get my PhD and I’m not very good at knowing when to quit.

Ouch. It’s painful to find out that field you chose isn’t right for you. On the other hand, a Ph.D is basically training for an academic position, and in most fields there are at least 10x the number of Ph.Ds as there are academic positions, so flexibility in the job hunt is essential.