Quote: Airlie Street "Ah that was the life, the best three years of your life being an undergraduate! Unfortunately your either misinformed or wilfully ignorant when it comes to PhD's.
For a start PhD students don't pay tuition their sponsors do, they don't have jobs because they don't have the time and they already get paid for doing the PhD in the first place (Tax free I might add!).
I guarantee the hours involved in a PhD are far more than what you work so don't get too cocky!
As for jobs, well that all depends on what you do, there isn't much call for a PhD in philosophy, however stick to the high paid science subjects and your laughing!'"
Being a science student, you are also misinformed as to how non-science subjects get funded, or not as is usually the case. Think yourself lucky if you have funding, most studying PhDs (plural not possessive, so no apostrophe) in the arts and social sciences have to pay their own fees, and work a hell of a lot just to do that.
As for there not being much call for a PhD in philospohy, you would be surprised. Arts etc. show more versatility than sciences, which are more vocational. For example, English can be taken into almost all vocations, as it is multidisciplinary.
So you can be cocky in your funded ivory nanostructered tower, but as for the rest of us who do need a cheaper season pass because we're skint, at least we can spell.
