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‘Financially Hobbled for Life’: The Elite Master’s Degrees That Don’t Pay Off
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What kind of phony baloney name is that? It's faux French. It marks its bearer as a kook. Her real name is probably something like Prunella Jones.
Many professors are paid just to teach a class. It’s a lump sum for the class. Here it is called a P14.
Despite having a university PhD, this woman is unable to understand why (1) everything in the world is not free (2) the disconnect between salaries and cost of living in the capital city (3) too many people for the available accomodation means some will be left out.
[Hint: uncontrolled immigration].
I certainly guessed correctly on on the absolute worthlessness of her degree.
Whoever made that loan to her will never see the light of day on a payoff.
such a sacrifice for such a useless degree
Sometimes; Pride goeth before having no safe place to sleep or leave your wallet.
After all that remarkable determination and struggling, she still hasn’t found gainful employment. So it appears.
Maybe better off writing her memoirs about that experience and having someone help her to write a screenplay on it.
I’ll bet her parents were shocked and even angry with her.
“Is this how we raised you, to be so disorganized, unpractical and paralyzed by your pride?”
Bright enough to earn PhD, but not bright enough to choose a “sustainable” field to pursue it in.
We have reached “Peak Woke Education,” lady.
Try to keep up.
How did she not seek a room on the cheap in exchange for cooking and cleaning? I would have hired her just for thrice-a-week cooking and cleaning, and in return she gets a key with round-the-clock access and all the bandwidth, electricity, hot water, consumer goods and food she can possibly consume -- which appears to be above-average.
I applaud her initiative. Roughing it didn’t kill her, and perhaps having some skin in the game made her degree mean more to her. Hopefully she’ll find work in her useless field one day. Until then, there are lots of jobs available in productive sectors.