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      06-08-2009, 07:49 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by wj4 View Post
Why isn't she doing it part time and get her employer to cover a portion or all of the tuition? And if she's going after her Ph.D, that means that she already has a Masters...should put that to work.

My step dad did his Ph.D or rather J.D., part time and finished in about 4 years.

~25 is WAY too early for a Ph.D. I'm 23 now and half of the people in my graduate courses for my Masters are in their late 20s to 40s.

It's very rare that someone get a BA/BS, Masters, Ph.D, without stopping to work. Kinda senseless too IMO..after all that, you have no real life experience.
she is working in a lab right now during the summer for some $$ and i think her job is paying something towards her education. I don't know i mean before she went into this program she was making really good money she bought whatever she wanted, lived in a nice apt, drove a nice car and so on, but now she asks my parents for money lol

The increase in pay with a PHD is like 7%-9% (or something close to that) and that percent makes my marginal benefit seem not so great but that's just me though.
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