I'll be finishing up my MEng this next academic year, and a funded PhD seems to be on the cards.
What I want from a career is be happy to wake up and go to work, and be able to earn a comfortable wage. I think academia could offer me this.
One thing that's putting me off, is the postdoc positions. It seems that their primary job is to churn out a load of papers, and once they manage to regularly get funding, they can get offered a staff position.
Also, what is your opinion on integrated masters degrees? It takes the same amount of time to do a Bsc, then an MSc as it does for the MEng, its just that the MEng can be funded by student finance. I guess I feel a bit cheated as I've done the same work that someone with a BEng and an MSc, but the MEng is looked down upon in comparison.
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I'll be finishing up my MEng this next academic year, and a funded PhD seems to be on the cards.
What I want from a career is be happy to wake up and go to work, and be able to earn a comfortable wage. I think academia could offer me this.
One thing that's putting me off, is the postdoc positions. It seems that their primary job is to churn out a load of papers, and once they manage to regularly get funding, they can get offered a staff position.
Also, what is your opinion on integrated masters degrees? It takes the same amount of time to do a Bsc, then an MSc as it does for the MEng, its just that the MEng can be funded by student finance. I guess I feel a bit cheated as I've done the same work that someone with a BEng and an MSc, but the MEng is looked down upon in comparison.
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