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[–] 4 points 7 months ago

Dual major/minor BS - 4 years, but I did 4 extra semesters during summer/winter breaks.

MS - 3 years

PhD - 4 years

If I could do it over, I would have skipped the PhD. I finished my PhD in 2008, when the economy went to shit. I was making $10 an hour 2008-2011 during my postdoctoral fellowship. After my fellowship was over, I couldn't find an industry job, so I ended up using my publications to get into contract writing for insurance companies, and now I do all of the benefits for our states Assembly.

The best part is having companies like Regeneron, or Fisher Scientific cold call me to offer me jobs that only need a BS, and that pay less than what I make now after having my resume for over a decade. (I make $30 an hour now, get 5 weeks of vacation a year, on top of sick time, and insurance with 0 deductible costs me less than $100 a month.) I told Curia that $50 an hour was my absolute floor, and HR person was like, "That's a bit out of our reach." My reply was, "That's why you're still hiring."

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