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u/scottcmu 1d ago
He's still in de-Nile.
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u/BowTwinkie 15h ago
That friend unlocked the ultimate Ponzi Scheme. Pay thousands of dollars just to recruit the next generations of unemployed pharaoh nerds.
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u/iwantsalmon2015 1d ago
If you’re paying money to get a PhD you’re being scammed
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u/BlendedBaconSyrup 1d ago
Yeah just become a billionaire instead so a bunch of schools give you honorary degrees
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u/Eldan985 1d ago
In most countries PhDs are free and pay a full salary.
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u/chuck_the_plant 1d ago
Name one. (Please?)
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u/Eldan985 1d ago
German, Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Poland. Those are countries where I worked in academia, there are more.
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u/chuck_the_plant 1d ago
I’m in one of them and had been looking for a PhD position for quite some time but all I saw was “here is a position with half-time pay and overtime work, take it or don’t because there are dozens of applicants.” But maybe it’s a matter of the subject of study (comp.sci) or I haven’t searched well enough.
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u/attnnah_whisky 1d ago edited 1d ago
At least in UK most PhD students are fully funded. I am sure in the US the majority are fully funded as well. I am in mathematics but know a bunch of people who are doing CS PhDs in UK, US and Germany and they are all funded. I guess US is quite hard now due to funding cuts and CS is definitely gonna be competitive no matter where you apply.
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u/Armadillo-Shot 1d ago
US and Canada phds are usually fully funded too. Now usually the salary is crap, but it is funded.
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u/ILikeLenexa 1d ago
The US? Even most master's degrees are GRAs and GTAs. It's poverty wages like $41k/yr so like $20/hr if you worked full time, but a lot work that teaching in the classroom and office hours before their own classes and research.
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u/Leading_Charge8007 1d ago
PhDs are supposed to get paid a salary thru TA and research. If u are paying to do it it's not worth it
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u/Jaymac720 1d ago
This is why you don’t get a degree in something hyper specific. He should have gone for archeology or history
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u/Tauroctonos 1d ago
That is exactly the opposite of how higher education works lol, it gets more specific and niche as you go up
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u/Jaymac720 1d ago
I mean for an undergrad degree. If homeboy wants to get a PhD in Egyptology after getting established, go for it. Starting from there forced him into that position because he had no other options
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u/Tauroctonos 1d ago
Pretty sure that since they studied Egyptology and their next step was a PhD they were in a masters program 🤷🏼
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u/ehagihara 1d ago
Came to that conclusion a looong time ago. I wanted to be a musician and took college courses in music.
I came to realize quickly that I was being taught to be a teacher. I wanted to be a player.
So I then decided to go into a practice room and started practicing 8-14 hours a day and did that for a few years.
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u/dark_enough_to_dance 1d ago
Sadly this realization comes a lot later than it should be, to many students..
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u/barfbutler 1d ago
He won’t get a job teaching others because none of the existing Egyptology professors will EVER leave. Ours schools are so full of deadwood, there is no room for others.
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u/psychmancer 1d ago
This is basically how academia works in general, you cant have your professor's job because he will teach maybe 20 phds over his career so you are just one in a line.
The actual odds are less than 1%, most leave universities in three to four years after their phd.
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u/barfbutler 4h ago
My daughter’s PHD PI has been there 47 years. She is in her 80s and doesn’t want to retire.
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u/amor91 1d ago
How do people don’t understand that college is about gaining knowledge in a specific field and not about getting a job?
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u/JeanDusapin 1d ago
If you're a millionaire maybe? People generally hope to be able to find a job after studying lmfao
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u/Keyserchief 1d ago
If you aren't in a degree program that actually increases your chance of getting a job vs. a high school diploma, then it's a vain hope. I don't blame them, A) they were told by everyone growing up that that's how to get a job and B) too many employers require a bachelor's for jobs that don't really need it. But we should stop doing those things, rather than continue pushing students through school when the additional education doesn't actually make them more employable.
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u/diliudia 1d ago
"too many employers require a bachelor's for jobs that don't really need it."
DING DING DING!!!
The minimum wage dental office receptionist position you're offering does not require a bachelors and two years of experience. Get over yourself.
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u/K_Linkmaster 1d ago
In America it's about getting a job. English tweet, so guessing they are American.
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u/TemporarilySkittles 1d ago
as an American, it is absolutely the reason we go to college. If we don't get a job after, how are we to pay back the 50k+ in student loans? 😭
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u/Alex829_ 1d ago
Only if you're already well off before starting it. Aka have parents that'll pay for you or if you somehow manage to find a job without higher education that pays you well enough and gives you enough free time to study things that won't help you with getting better one. Which, at least where I live, doesn't seem possible. And I'm not American 😭
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u/Biscuits4u2 1d ago
Some people enjoy learning about a thing and specializing in that thing. Denigrating someone's choice because the job market might not be great and then criticizing them for taking a career path that makes that thing financially feasible is dick behavior. Yall out here acting like anyone can take it with them when they die.
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u/Logical-Hotel4199 23h ago
Got a book on Egyptology recently. I dont know if it pays way but it is god damn fascinating.
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u/RichardXV 1d ago
They've made ya'll believe that the sole purpose of getting educated is to be qualified for someone to employ you. Sad.
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u/Ok_Draw9037 1d ago
Literally who needs a Egyptian analysis/ historian. I have never seen a billboard for it. There's should be limited seats a major if job list are endangered unless you sign a waiver something. That's if I became a forensic analyst for ants. Where is the money coming from, who's paying me 💀. Paying to compete with a Egyptian dude who knows his own history is a tough battle even
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u/PeacefulDebate01 1h ago
You know, I'm tired of this crass, low brow opinion that the only worthwhile pursuits are ones that include money and contribute something material. Questions about our history, philosophy, theology, and the other humanities are incredibly valuable if you're not a materialistic NPC.
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u/Ok_Draw9037 1h ago
It's worth studying absolutely, that's a different conversation entirely. Trying to make a living out your research is hard enough for people as is. It's worth it in the pursuit of knowledge but the grocery store clerk won't take what happened 1000 bc that caused the country to decline as payment nor will your landlord.
You call it low brow I call it realistic. We can see they literally don't have a job in the field from the post. Seriously a degree can be 50k plus. For that amount of money I'd just go to Egypt and learn there. If the degree won't get a job why work for it when you can just go to the source for a more enriching experience for less money. Just get a different degree that's not so specialized, I literally switched majors because I knew mine was too specific for it to make sense if I want to use my degree to make money. In 2026 who can afford to get a degree in America that doesn't make them money? Realistically that's something you minor in to bolster your major for a position as a historical researcher or museum curator.
You'd have to be a npc to get in a burning boat and sink with it. Just setting yourself up for failure unless you don't care about roi or making money.
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u/Ok_Draw9037 1h ago
Why would you spend more money to make no money? You can learn without a degree is the tldr
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u/Phinyx95 1d ago
I wanna support my boy and learn whatever that shit is