Phd

[vincentpa]

BTW, I know all this because I have friends that are professors at local universities. I am extremely jealous of their lifestyles.

[QH's Paw]

PHD= Pig Headed Dick!

[aunt betty]

PHD= Pig Headed Dick!

My father has a PHD in EE. He's more of a pig headed asshole though.

Remember the oil spill? They were stuck...dead. Dad figured out the robot's radios were interfering with each other and got it going again. The dumbass didn't even send a bill to Exxon. I would have!

[RonE]

You know what BS is.......Well, MS is more of the same and Phd is Piled high and deep.

[RonE]

PHD= Pig Headed Dick!

My father has a PHD in EE. He's more of a pig headed asshole though.

Remember the oil spill? They were stuck...dead. Dad figured out the robot's radios were interfering with each other and got it going again. The dumbass didn't even send a bill to Exxon. I would have!

Which oil spill?

[aunt betty]

PHD= Pig Headed Dick!

My father has a PHD in EE. He's more of a pig headed asshole though.

Remember the oil spill? They were stuck...dead. Dad figured out the robot's radios were interfering with each other and got it going again. The dumbass didn't even send a bill to Exxon. I would have!

Which oil spill?

The one in the gulf of Mexico.

[Eric Haynes]

I will be finished with my masters degree in accounting in approximately 3 years. After that I would be interested in pursuing a Phd in accounting. I am searching till the end of the internet trying to see if it is actually worth the time and energy. A quick job search finds that if I do go after the phd about all I will end up doing is being a college professor. So my question is for those with banking/money jobs, is it worth the time to pursue it even if I have no interest in becoming a college professor?

I'll answer this honestly. PhD's aren't just the next step after a Masters. You don't just just say hey, i think I'm going to get a phd. Anyone I've ever known to get one or in the process of, has lived and breathed their major and are so passionate about it that they give up years and years of their life attaining it. I currently have a friend who is in the ANG and in the PhD program. He was accepted his 3rd year in college and skipped right over the Masters, but he has to leave the Guard because there is absolutely no time for him to do both, and he is only ANG. I kind of got a kick when he told me he's looking at around 40-50k a year until tenured...

[RonE]

PHD= Pig Headed Dick!

My father has a PHD in EE. He's more of a pig headed asshole though.

Remember the oil spill? They were stuck...dead. Dad figured out the robot's radios were interfering with each other and got it going again. The dumbass didn't even send a bill to Exxon. I would have!

Which oil spill?

The one in the gulf of Mexico.

The Mexican oil spill in 1979 or the recent spill in 2010?

[aunt betty]

PHD= Pig Headed Dick!

My father has a PHD in EE. He's more of a pig headed asshole though.

Remember the oil spill? They were stuck...dead. Dad figured out the robot's radios were interfering with each other and got it going again. The dumbass didn't even send a bill to Exxon. I would have!

Which oil spill?

The one in the gulf of Mexico.

The Mexican oil spill in 1979 or the recent spill in 2010?

The recent one.

[3geese4me]

I will be finished with my masters degree in accounting in approximately 3 years. After that I would be interested in pursuing a Phd in accounting. I am searching till the end of the internet trying to see if it is actually worth the time and energy. A quick job search finds that if I do go after the phd about all I will end up doing is being a college professor. So my question is for those with banking/money jobs, is it worth the time to pursue it even if I have no interest in becoming a college professor?

I'll answer this honestly. PhD's aren't just the next step after a Masters. You don't just just say hey, i think I'm going to get a phd. Anyone I've ever known to get one or in the process of, has lived and breathed their major and are so passionate about it that they give up years and years of their life attaining it. I currently have a friend who is in the ANG and in the PhD program. He was accepted his 3rd year in college and skipped right over the Masters, but he has to leave the Guard because there is absolutely no time for him to do both, and he is only ANG. I kind of got a kick when he told me he's looking at around 40-50k a year until tenured...

That would be a deal killer for me, having to get off of Active Duty to pursue this. I only know of one person in the Air Force that has a PhD. And he's a security forces chief of all jobs. I'll ping him for how he did it because it is something that I want to do, but I'll need to find a balance between work and the PhD program.

[aunt betty]

I will be finished with my masters degree in accounting in approximately 3 years. After that I would be interested in pursuing a Phd in accounting. I am searching till the end of the internet trying to see if it is actually worth the time and energy. A quick job search finds that if I do go after the phd about all I will end up doing is being a college professor. So my question is for those with banking/money jobs, is it worth the time to pursue it even if I have no interest in becoming a college professor?

I'll answer this honestly. PhD's aren't just the next step after a Masters. You don't just just say hey, i think I'm going to get a phd. Anyone I've ever known to get one or in the process of, has lived and breathed their major and are so passionate about it that they give up years and years of their life attaining it. I currently have a friend who is in the ANG and in the PhD program. He was accepted his 3rd year in college and skipped right over the Masters, but he has to leave the Guard because there is absolutely no time for him to do both, and he is only ANG. I kind of got a kick when he told me he's looking at around 40-50k a year until tenured...

That would be a deal killer for me, having to get off of Active Duty to pursue this. I only know of one person in the Air Force that has a PhD. And he's a security forces chief of all jobs. I'll ping him for how he did it because it is something that I want to do, but I'll need to find a balance between work and the PhD program.

That's just not how it works.

When I was in engineering school at UIUC the program was set up as a PHD mill.
When I declared to my advisor that "I just wanted a Bachelor's degree and a good engineering job" he turned it into a mess...had to fight with him because...
In his words, " you simply don't go to a top 5 engineering school and NOT teach".

What a mistake it was for me to go there. I regret it.

[Eric Haynes]

I will be finished with my masters degree in accounting in approximately 3 years. After that I would be interested in pursuing a Phd in accounting. I am searching till the end of the internet trying to see if it is actually worth the time and energy. A quick job search finds that if I do go after the phd about all I will end up doing is being a college professor. So my question is for those with banking/money jobs, is it worth the time to pursue it even if I have no interest in becoming a college professor?

I'll answer this honestly. PhD's aren't just the next step after a Masters. You don't just just say hey, i think I'm going to get a phd. Anyone I've ever known to get one or in the process of, has lived and breathed their major and are so passionate about it that they give up years and years of their life attaining it. I currently have a friend who is in the ANG and in the PhD program. He was accepted his 3rd year in college and skipped right over the Masters, but he has to leave the Guard because there is absolutely no time for him to do both, and he is only ANG. I kind of got a kick when he told me he's looking at around 40-50k a year until tenured...

That would be a deal killer for me, having to get off of Active Duty to pursue this. I only know of one person in the Air Force that has a PhD. And he's a security forces chief of all jobs. I'll ping him for how he did it because it is something that I want to do, but I'll need to find a balance between work and the PhD program.

You have 12 years in right? You would be retired by the time you started your thesis anyways I would imagine. This guy here will be traveling the country for a couple years giving seminars and doing research. Got any ideas on what your thesis will be on? This dude already had his drafted when he got accepted into the PhD program.

One other thing. Id seriously be applying to get accepted now over waiting. I know he was one of only five to get accepted in NY

[3geese4me]

I only 10.5 years in

[assateague]

I guess you have to ask yourself if it's worth the return on invest, both ways. The time and money going in worth the time and/or money you'd realistically get out of it? Although like some others, I don't see the benefit in a PhD unless you're going into academia somewhere. I really don't think they translate very well to the working world. Any working world, no matter the discipline. I'd say you'd be better off with a solid masters and suck up all the credentialing you realistically can, unless you're planning on going into research or something, but that's just my opinion.

[aunt betty]

I guess you have to ask yourself if it's worth the return on invest, both ways. The time and money going in worth the time and/or money you'd realistically get out of it? Although like some others, I don't see the benefit in a PhD unless you're going into academia somewhere. I really don't think they translate very well to the working world. Any working world, no matter the discipline. I'd say you'd be better off with a solid masters and suck up all the credentialing you realistically can, unless you're planning on going into research or something, but that's just my opinion.

Ever meet a PHD on a line in a plastic bottle factory? We had TWO on one line. One had a PhD in accounting and the other was in history.
They both were very good bottle stackers.

[Eric Haynes]

I guess you have to ask yourself if it's worth the return on invest, both ways. The time and money going in worth the time and/or money you'd realistically get out of it? Although like some others, I don't see the benefit in a PhD unless you're going into academia somewhere. I really don't think they translate very well to the working world. Any working world, no matter the discipline. I'd say you'd be better off with a solid masters and suck up all the credentialing you realistically can, unless you're planning on going into research or something, but that's just my opinion.

Ever meet a PHD on a line in a plastic bottle factory? We had TWO on one line. One had a PhD in accounting and the other was in history.
They both were very good bottle stackers.

Oh yeah! That was Steve and Ricky. Good guys.

[vincentpa]

Did I mention access to all that hot young snatch you'll have as a university professor?

[aunt betty]

I had lots of profs with PhD's. You know...a PhD can't do shit. Its what they do. (Not shit)
You see, those that cannot DO...TEACH.

[Eric Haynes]

I had lots of profs with PhD's. You know...a PhD can't do shit. Its what they do. (Not shit)
You see, those that cannot DO...TEACH.

Hah! Might be the dumbest thing I've heard you say to date.

[Mornin Beef]

Good ol vinny corleone nailed it. So true.

[3geese4me]

Did I mention access to all that hot young snatch you'll have as a university professor?

That alone would be worth it.