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When Advanced Degrees Don't Lead to Expected Career Outcomes

I got my PhD but I cannot find work in academia and I feel like I wasted the best years of my life on something that will never pay me back.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The gap between educational investment and professional reality creates a sense of temporal loss that questions the entire framework of merit and reward.

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