Too late (I wouldn't call myself brilliant though) :P
If anything the fact that so many people don't get there motivates me.
I've never belived in actually caring about the job market and such (or career planning). If you're sufficiently motivated that usually takes care of itself.
I mean I'm mostly in it because I need to change the world a bit. Kind of the whole "you just see the world in a different way" that gets brought up by entrepreneurs all the time. Some research isn't the slow and incremental type everyone keeps talking about in their "lol PhD/academics" rants :D
[Also getting a PhD here is vastly different. I get payed, teach classes and tutor students and work on my PhD on the side. Basically all self management/motivation and we don't take any classes and the like. Just thesis+defend]
If anything the fact that so many people don't get there motivates me.
I've never belived in actually caring about the job market and such (or career planning). If you're sufficiently motivated that usually takes care of itself.
I mean I'm mostly in it because I need to change the world a bit. Kind of the whole "you just see the world in a different way" that gets brought up by entrepreneurs all the time. Some research isn't the slow and incremental type everyone keeps talking about in their "lol PhD/academics" rants :D
[Also getting a PhD here is vastly different. I get payed, teach classes and tutor students and work on my PhD on the side. Basically all self management/motivation and we don't take any classes and the like. Just thesis+defend]