It's enough for me to know that I have absolutely 0 desire to do a PhD or be a professor. I'm also so glad that I had a teaching assistantship that meant I got paid for doing this rather than going into debt for it. If you're in a field that has paid assistantships there is no reason to ever go into debt for a masters. It's nice to have the big bulk of this done.
It's absolutely worthwhile to get this published now and you've already done far, far more work to get to this point than to get the publication itself through the process. You'll thank me later. I mean it. Come back to this thread and thank me after you reap the rewards for having a publication and some citations.
Great but do you have a job lined up that pays well? That's all that matters now.
My 1st job ultimately is a get experience type of job. I'll be fine but not living amazingly with it. I'm not amazing at job searching unfortunately. But I fully expect it to be easier with experience and I expect to be more picky about my jobs choice down the line. Like I said before, much of my reason for getting a masters was to actually have a degree in my desired field.
It's absolutely worthwhile to get this published now and you've already done far, far more work to get to this point than to get the publication itself through the process. You'll thank me later. I mean it. Come back to this thread and thank me after you reap the rewards for having a publication and some citations.
What are my incentives? Resume boosting? That I think will be a stronger point if I were to decide to do a PhD, but a point nonetheless. If I were to not go into academia for my career, how big of a point is it compared to the effort it would take to present the findings in a significantly different way the journal would ask for to be 1st author instead of 2nd?
You should look at being a biostatics professional for developing and conducting clinical studies. In my limited world there seems to be a big need here and you can work for a university with a large medical research focus.
Having your masters published is important in these circles just to show you aren't a slacker and a researcher. You can still be a slacker but I think the work is interesting.
I did a masters in nuclear science and now work a minimum wage stop-gap job, but this is the appalling UK jobs market. I'd love to move to the USA if anyone can show me how. How long would a PhD in nuclear engineering take over there?
I did a masters in nuclear science and now work a minimum wage stop-gap job, but this is the appalling UK jobs market. I'd love to move to the USA if anyone can show me how. How long would a PhD in nuclear engineering take over there?
I'd look up specific programs and see what they say on their websites, and email any contacts you find there about it. If the job market is that bad over there it seems like it's at least worth a shot.
It would be a shame to give up on PhD now. PhD programs in STEM desperately need Americans. Yet many capable American students do not pursue PhD.
For me a big part of even getting a masters was that I took time picking my undergrad major and ended up doing econ to finish on time when stats was what I really wanted to do, so at that point getting a masters in stats wouldn't take much more time than finishing after changing my major, so may as well get the higher degree in that case. I have no logic like that for a PhD and academic research isn't what I want my whole career to be, so doing another 2-4 years for the sole purpose of some kind of patriotism doesn't make much sense.
For me a big part of even getting a masters was that I took time picking my undergrad major and ended up doing econ to finish on time when stats was what I really wanted to do, so at that point getting a masters in stats wouldn't take much more time than finishing after changing my major, so may as well get the higher degree in that case. I have no logic like that for a PhD and academic research isn't what I want my whole career to be, so doing another 2-4 years for the sole purpose of some kind of patriotism doesn't make much sense.
4-6* FTFY
Dang, I thought 4-6 was with only a bachelor's going into the PhD program. Even more reason not to do it then lmao
What is the deal with master's theses, they are even less likely than a doctoral dissertation to be read by anyone, published anywhere important, have any influence.
So now's your chance, show us it
My advisor says he's gonna try to have this published. For me to be the main author in the journal I'd have to go through that whole submission process, and I just can't bring myself to care enough about being the 1st author to do that, but this has at least been good practice at application of what I've learned. It probably won't be too influential, but how much of that can be reasonably expected from a 1st significant research project? And I'm not submitting it here, because it's a 100% chance of doxing myself, and I know you guys won't want to read it, because even I don't want to read it. But the idea is just showing what you can do more than classes can.
I want to read it. I want to know if your master's thesis was any good.
Here you are, posting about "master's thesis," and then you chicken out and talk about "doxed." You're not talking about your material, you're talking about yourself. That is the #1 classic sign of a phony intellectual.
Tell us what your thesis claims and we will debunk it
My advisor says he's gonna try to have this published. For me to be the main author in the journal I'd have to go through that whole submission process, and I just can't bring myself to care enough about being the 1st author to do that, but this has at least been good practice at application of what I've learned. It probably won't be too influential, but how much of that can be reasonably expected from a 1st significant research project? And I'm not submitting it here, because it's a 100% chance of doxing myself, and I know you guys won't want to read it, because even I don't want to read it. But the idea is just showing what you can do more than classes can.
I want to read it. I want to know if your master's thesis was any good.
Here you are, posting about "master's thesis," and then you chicken out and talk about "doxed." You're not talking about your material, you're talking about yourself. That is the #1 classic sign of a phony intellectual.
Tell us what your thesis claims and we will debunk it
Honestly, it just felt so good to be done that I was posting in elation. I'm not some mega genius and I never claimed to be. I don't want to post my real name here and posting the thesis would do that. If you personally care that much give me some email or something to send it to.
At this point I don't need to read it. You've made it abundantly plain that it sucks. You jumped through the hoops, went through the motions, didn't care. In this day and age, with its low standards, that means it was probably wrong anyhow. Or some dull busy work any hack could have done.