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Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence

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On 4/20/2018 5:20 PM, benj wrote:
> On 4/20/2018 12:05 AM, Sergio wrote:
>> On 4/19/2018 10:21 PM, David Dalton wrote:
>>> It was a rough 2.5 hours, but this afternoon I passed my final
>>> Ph.D. oral defence. Now all I have to do is make some
>>> corrections to my thesis, submit it to the library, and
>>> attend Convocation on May 30.
>>>
>>> My thesis is in geophysics, specifically applied math applied
>>> to theoretical seismology and continuum mechanics. The
>>> title is "On Backus average in modelling guided waves”
>>> and I will announce on here when the final version is
>>> available online.
>>>
>>> I probably would have gotten my Ph.D. back in 1993 if I
>>> hadn’t been affected by bipolar disorder starting in 1991,
>>> but luckily I have not had significant problems since
>>> early 2005 and have not been in hospital since July, 1996.
>>>
>>> The CV on my home page needs to be updated with the
>>> recent Ph.D. residency and with the five papers on which
>>> the thesis is based, but I probably won’t do that until
>>> after I get my thesis in the library. I plan to take the
>>> summer mostly off but will start looking for a postdoc
>>> for the fall or winter reasonably soon.
>>>
>>
>> congradulations!!
>> years and years of hard work there!
>> I never tried got masters instead, needed $$ faster.
>>
> Sergio is correct. When I was an undergrad I had a bunch of data on
> salaries and professional pay as years of experience go on. One thing
> was very clear and that is that a Master's is the optimum point. Even
> though you start higher with Ph.D. you never really make up the lost
> years it took to get it while the master's degree guy has a job and is
> advancing in salary while you vegetate. And a postdoc is worse putting
> you Way behind the curve. Sometimes there are other considerations than
> mere money, however.

the # of jobs in PHD are not so many either. teaching yes,
demand in industry is hard, Math PHDs ...
physics phds got into stock market Quants
anyhow it is 10 years to phd, lots of hard work, (no income) and you
have to prove you are a leader in the field, by a good published paper
or two or three

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I passed my Ph.D. defence David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-04-20 00:51 -0230
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-04-19 23:05 -0500
    Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-04-20 18:20 -0400
      Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-04-20 18:40 -0500
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Lofty Goat <rlwatkins@gmail.com> - 2018-04-20 12:09 -0500
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2018-04-20 18:14 -0400
    Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence Sergio <invalid@invalid.com> - 2018-04-20 18:43 -0500
      Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-04-20 22:04 -0230
        Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence lbjohnson1949@yahoo.com - 2018-04-21 05:06 -0700
  Re: I passed my Ph.D. defence David Dalton <dalton@nfld.com> - 2018-06-01 02:23 -0230

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