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When graduate school becomes a prison of sunk costs

Everyone in my PhD program talks about leaving academia but no one actually does it and I feel trapped by the sunk cost of six years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're staying on a path that no longer fits just because you've already put in so much.

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