What is it like to have a PhD and not go into academia? - Quora

Answer: Painful.​ It's actually not very difficult to get a job outside of a.​.​.​ Top Stories from Your Feed Your Quora Digest What is it like to have a PhD and not go into academia? Joseph Wang, Chief Scientist, Bitquant Research 181.9k views Painful. It's actually not very difficult to get a job outside of academia, but I had to deal with that little voice in my head that told me that I was a failure and a l... Read More » Is it true that students at schools like Harvard never get enough sleep because of work? Tom Stagliano, Senior Aerospace Engineer (studied at MIT) 5.7k views I attended MIT for nine years (undergrad and grad) and I had sufficient sleep most of the time, even when I was playing intercollegiate or adult soccer or ice hockey as a s... Read More » How has SV Angel been so successful over the years, given how challenging seed investing is? Ron Conway, Founder and Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel 17.6k views We have been successful since we have stuck to our original thesis – to only invest in Internet software companies. We still do that today. Our area of focus within Interne...  Read More » How many weeks of vacation does an Amazon software engineer have in a year? John L. Miller, Software Developer at Microsoft, Amazon, Google, Oracle for 25 years. Ph.D. 9.8k views Amazon has less leave than any other major software company I've worked at. IIRC, it was 6 fixed holidays a year, 6 days of 'personal time,' 2 weeks of vacation (3 startin... Read More » If I brought a person from 500 BC to 2016, what would they think? Robert Rockey 389.9k views It would really depend on where you drop them now. If you took say a Roman soldier and dropped him in field by a highway, he would think the field is unusually large, snear...  Read More » What is the desk setup for employees at big technology companies such as Facebook or Google? (In 2015) Tom Cook 176.2k views This is what my desk in the FB site reliability area looked like in early 2010: Facebook uses an open plan office, with not much privacy for employees. It can sometimes b...  Read More » What is something that almost nobody knows but if they did, it would change their lives? Erin Sonier, Canadian Extraordinaire 2.5k views The original question asks: What is something that almost nobody knows but if they did, it would change their lives? My answer for this is, their own self worth. Too many peo...  Read More » How do American medical students study dissection and anatomy without killing animals in school? Jen Gibson 4.8k views I'm sorry you had to see those animals in that condition. That must have been difficult, and my heart hurts for the suffering of those dogs. I'm a med student in the US and ...  Read More » What is some advice from Google candidates who were rejected? Mickey Phoenix 10.8k views I contracted at Google as a software engineer for almost two years (having passed the contractor interview with no trouble). Roughly halfway through that time, and with the...  Read More » What is the best way to reset one's sleep cycle? Yul Huh 14.3k views Early morning (pre-dawn, crack of dawn) BRIGHT LIGHT exposure. You can accomplish this by going outside for half an hour, looking around, and taking in the sun. Alternativ... Read More »   Read More in Your Feed Follow Quora on: Get the App for iOS and Android This email was sent by Quora (650 Castro Street #450, Mountain View, CA 94041). Choose which emails we send you through Email Settings or Unsubscribe.