Do we any PhDs or PhD students here.

You’re not getting a good representation of answers you need to make that decision by asking that question. You should also ask people who are not doing a PhD but thought about it why they ain’t.

What subject were you going to do yours in

Siddhartha said:

Thinking of doing it in statistics or artificial intelligence

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That would be a smart move since A.I is the future. But what are you hoping to get out of it?

It leads you to a career in lecturing and you don’t need it to work in the industry.

Is this something related to computational maths?

I've come to realise, that kids nowadays only go into higher education, just to party and have fun for three or four years.

Arma said:

I've come to realise, that kids nowadays only go into higher education, just to party and have fun for three or four years.

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@Arma

Didn’t you’ve fun during your apprenticeship years and drank slabs of beers at bogan parties?

Yeah, am working on my PhD in Equilibrium Statistical Physics. Lost my hair though...
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AussieHustler said:

@Arma

Didn’t you’ve fun during your apprenticeship years and drank slabs of beers at bogan parties?

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One of the things, that I'm most proud of is that I've never had a sip of alcohol whatsoever. Yeah I've had fun, during my apprenticeship. But at least me having fun, didn't result in me being in debt up to my eyeballs, and with a useless degree, that I'll never most likely use.

Arma said:

One of the things, that I'm most proud of is that I've never had a sip of alcohol whatsoever. Yeah I've had fun, during my apprenticeship. But at least me having fun, didn't result in me being in debt up to my eyeballs, and with a useless degree, that I'll never most likely use.

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I was watching Al-Jazeera English the other day and saw that this problem even affects the Arab world (over-education).


Wonder if this issue has spread to Somalia.

Siddhartha said:

I am currently studying my masters and the thought of PhD has always been in my head. The only thing putting me off is the length 4 years.
Maybe I'll do it when I'm 30 ish.

So my question is what made you decide to take the jump and enter into research and academia. What do you hope to do after?.

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Don't just jump into a PhD unless you're really obsessed about the field you're getting into.

You'll face a ton of stupid politics, caajinimo and hair loss if you do decide to do a PhD.

Saying that I think you should go ahead anyways.

A PhD in your field would guarantee you a side part time gig and I'm sure some companies wouldn't mind sponsoring you throughout your studies.

Just take a year out beforehand to work in the industry and figure out what you want to specialize in.

Predictive modeling seems interesting and there's plenty opportunities to use it in marketing and business planning/forecasting.

However try to place yourself in a position that gets you out of the rat race and into a Management role.

You can't always keep up with the latest tools and knowledge.

Go for a high level topic that'll teach you enough to be of use to some startup.

Once it gets bought up you'll be able to jump straight into a management position and save years of being cooped up as a cog in a wheel.

Apollo said:

I was watching Al-Jazeera English the other day and saw that this problem even affects the Arab world (over-education).


Wonder if this issue has spread to Somalia.

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I did watched this video too the other night and believe me somalia is million worse than this(jordan) country...the video says 40% of jordanian graduates end up unemployed, approx somalia is 80%

Apollo said:

I was watching Al-Jazeera English the other day and saw that this problem even affects the Arab world (over-education).


Wonder if this issue has spread to Somalia.

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Its not to that state here in the UK. It's just that here, a lot of graduates, don't get into careers, based on the degree that they studied for. I've got a good Turkish friend. He studied law at a reputable university in the south coast of England. Today, he too, works in construction, as a manager.....he certainly didn't need a law degree for that.

Siddhartha said:

Thinking of doing it in statistics or artificial intelligence

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thats a really good topic/sbject, stats, artifial intellegnce even betetr but

Siddhartha said:

I am currently studying my masters and the thought of PhD has always been in my head. The only thing putting me off is the length 4 years.
Maybe I'll do it when I'm 30 ish.

So my question is what made you decide to take the jump and enter into research and academia. What do you hope to do after?.

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what are you studying sister/brother?

do stats in Phd or mixed it with something,

in fact if you decide to do maths or stats or R or quanta, matrix, a subject with maths, you will get free scholarship or massively reduced scholarship since hardly any body wants to do it

take it from me, the most educated man in this forum, artificial intelligence seems good, its the future, if you do it, mixed it with stats/maths, quantitative subjects like econometric, stats etc,


with it you can work in finance ( modelling, research, quants trader, tester, where you test various trading models, remember trading is technical, fundamental and psychological, the fundamental is understanding economics the technical is maths, Bollinger bands, r series, moving averages etc, i am teaching my little brother to trade, he is doing ok,

with that kind of degree they will kiss your hand in the banking/finance world, if you go there top up your economics with real world economics, ei if you do stats, mixed it with economics/quantitative economics/econometric, that is if you like trading, modelling, finance,


if you do artificial intelligence mixed with stats then you will go towards engineering, physics, i dont really know much about AI but do research, if you need tips on the finance, stats, economics world with a stats phd i am here to help,

Arma said:

Its not to that state here in the UK. It's just that here, a lot of graduates, don't get into careers, based on the degree that they studied for. I've got a good Turkish friend. He studied law at a reputable university in the south coast of England. Today, he too, works in construction, as a manager.....he certainly didn't need a law degree for that.

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silly government inflated it by giving loans to any Dick and farah who want to study any degree, the only successful degrees today are people doing medicine, physics, maths/econometric basically STEM, sciences, engineering, computer science, maths and technology,

Only thing that's off putting is the low salary. The salaries range between 2100-2600 that's gaajo honorarium.

A good option is to work as a scientific staff member at a research organisation and work on your manuscript in the mean time. This requires a lot of discipline though. You can ask your peers whether you can co-author the articles.

Not sure how it is in your country, but here in the Netherlands,the requirements are that your manuscript/dissertation should contain at least 4 peer reviewed published articles with you as the first author.

I see at our department few freshly graduated PhD holders. You can see that they haven't had experience in the real world. Despite having conducted 4 years of research, working in a cooperate environment is seemingly different for them. In research you have lots of time, in cooperate life, things move way faster.

Euros are lucky, a PHd would mean a 100 thousands dollars in debt in the US.

Unfortunately due to economic circumstances and statelessness I have withdrawn my ambitions to pursue in a degree I always dreamt of .

However to further studies, age wise seeking knowledge for your own good is never too late despite that we should always be optimistic it's never too late .

PhDs get payed less in the market