We’ll, there’s a good chance his expensive loans will be forgiven And paid for by hard working American taxpayers who are stupefied by the reasoning behind it…
As usual, prejudiced BS. The average first-year salary of a Harvard grad is $88,700 and the average salary of a Starbucks barista is $15.55 an hour so if he works 5704 hours a year …
I thought at first he was going to say he was a doorman at a ritzy apartment building! I can’t stand Starbucks! Hope he gets some good tips to help pay off that loan.
A Ph.D. is the pinnacle of academic pursuit and has NOTHING to do with employability. Although it does indicate one has the concentration and dedication to pursue a very specific subject to a defensible conclusion.
If you need a barista who knows the development of coffee from the Medieval Middle East to Malibu, find someone with a Ph. D. :)
Not Harvard PhD’s necessarily, but PhD’s in general have flooded the market for the types of desirable careers that are generally available; tenure track positions. The problem is a PhD in a tenure-track position is evaluated based on publications, grant money, and graduate students in the program. So the key to success is write a good project proposal for the grant and then get as many grad students as possible to actually do the work and write the initial manuscript drafts of the research. In addition to a stipend, the grad student will eventually ( if they don’t drop out) get a degree ( MS or PhD). So a tenure-track PhD’s program can churn out quite a few graduates. The PhD grad is then on their own to secure a position in academia or industry. In most fields, there are fewer PhD-level available positions than the number of PhD students being churned out through this system. Less than 80% of PhD grads obtained employment in their field of study from 2000-2019. These positions include PostDoc (temporary) positions so the percentage of those achieving a premium position is less than that. I’m not sure what the solution to this is, but it seems to be taking advantage to aspiring, quality students.
a sage about 2 months ago
His degree was in sitting around and drinking coffee.
ncorgbl about 2 months ago
Making his parents proud.
Rich_Pa about 2 months ago
Can’t beat the benefits.
MuddyUSA Premium Member about 2 months ago
She:: Oh great can you get me another drink?
William Bednar Premium Member about 2 months ago
Don’t forget to leave a tip for the Barista!
Tradewinds309 about 2 months ago
Should have gone to Yale. He could have had a chance to become Vice President of the United States.
Oh Really? about 2 months ago
We’ll, there’s a good chance his expensive loans will be forgiven And paid for by hard working American taxpayers who are stupefied by the reasoning behind it…
bilbrlsn about 2 months ago
As usual, prejudiced BS. The average first-year salary of a Harvard grad is $88,700 and the average salary of a Starbucks barista is $15.55 an hour so if he works 5704 hours a year …
Kornfield Kounty about 2 months ago
Your inferiority complex is not good enough … try harder.
cuzinron47 about 2 months ago
Those liberal arts degrees don’t open many doors.
goboboyd about 2 months ago
He writes the nicknames on the cups in Latin. With a scrawly Happy Face, so you don’t know if it is happy or snarky.
j.l.farmer about 2 months ago
I thought at first he was going to say he was a doorman at a ritzy apartment building! I can’t stand Starbucks! Hope he gets some good tips to help pay off that loan.
Retrac Premium Member about 2 months ago
Ok, but was he on the Fencing Team?
mistercatworks about 2 months ago
A Ph.D. is the pinnacle of academic pursuit and has NOTHING to do with employability. Although it does indicate one has the concentration and dedication to pursue a very specific subject to a defensible conclusion.
If you need a barista who knows the development of coffee from the Medieval Middle East to Malibu, find someone with a Ph. D. :)
kennecwk about 2 months ago
Not Harvard PhD’s necessarily, but PhD’s in general have flooded the market for the types of desirable careers that are generally available; tenure track positions. The problem is a PhD in a tenure-track position is evaluated based on publications, grant money, and graduate students in the program. So the key to success is write a good project proposal for the grant and then get as many grad students as possible to actually do the work and write the initial manuscript drafts of the research. In addition to a stipend, the grad student will eventually ( if they don’t drop out) get a degree ( MS or PhD). So a tenure-track PhD’s program can churn out quite a few graduates. The PhD grad is then on their own to secure a position in academia or industry. In most fields, there are fewer PhD-level available positions than the number of PhD students being churned out through this system. Less than 80% of PhD grads obtained employment in their field of study from 2000-2019. These positions include PostDoc (temporary) positions so the percentage of those achieving a premium position is less than that. I’m not sure what the solution to this is, but it seems to be taking advantage to aspiring, quality students.