Posted by alexandra_k on July 5, 2005, at 19:14:43
In reply to Re: Searching for a job sucks! » alexandra_k, posted by thuso on July 5, 2005, at 17:31:19
> I'm actually finishing up my Masters right now.
Ya, me too :-)
Want to swap???>An MBA, JD, and PhD are all looking very appealing at the moment.
JD??
>I went to a talk a few weeks ago about if women and children in the US had too much mercury in their blood, and the speaker had an MD, PhD, and JD. I was like, "oooohhhhh....what a great idea!".
Absolutely!
>Of course all that makes you over qualified for most jobs. hahaha! He just happened to work at NIH (National Institute of Health).
Yeah. Thats the idea. To be overqualified for most jobs. Get yourself a job you really like or not at all IMO.
> And the student loan scheme here is that as long as you are a student you can have your loans deferred. Or you can have your loans deferred for 6 months at a time if you are unemployed.Terrific!
> So, my options for not paying my loans back are go to school forever or never get a job. School is more appealing to me. :-P
Yeah. Me too. I think that if you get to be fairly overqualified then you will be able to make minimum repayments on your loan (for the rest of your working life) and still have more money in the hand than a fair few people out there. Enough to live comfortably, to be sure. Thats basically my plan. If a job comes along that sounds interesting and is something that I think I could be good at (most likely some form of research) then even though the money won't be as good as if I'd have done something private practiceable I'll still see more money in the hand than I ever would have seen without all those years at uni.
I don't know about your field...
I'm in social sciences and you really shouldn't have to pay tuition or living costs while doing a PhD. Really. There are scholarships out there to handle that. I'd suggest applying to heaps of places and then you will have a few options to make a decision from.
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