A real PhD from a state university? The timeline is a decade of your youth, the money is a pittance that makes my teacher's salary look royal, and the life... is mostly in a dusty library while your friends buy cars. I see it from my 4 PM classroom window—my brightest former student, who got his PhD, now cycles past that same coaching centre to his third temporary contract job. For every one who gets a professor's pension like mine, there are ten who live with that steady hum of uncertainty. Ayyayo, it breaks my heart.
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