Avoid “PhD students are miserable”

You can avoid this by:

• picking a supportive supervisor
• not entering uncertain funding situations
• only joining if it’s a subject you’re obsessed with

Success

Don’t take a bad job, don’t join a bad PhD

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Also beware the urge to say “I’m built different,” in most cases you’re unfortunately not built different.

From comments:

wonder if quitting a PhD should not be more normalized, I’ve seen a bunch of people who felt that not completing the PhD was a huge personal failure, whereas quitting another job is considered ok

It should be! If you quit a PhD, you got X years of time to learn and pick up new skills. Those are still there even if you quit and no one really cares besides you

Ref: https://x.com/EugeneVinitsky/status/1837145639043408290