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[–] cli-che-guevara 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Finish your doctorate, apply for a postdoc, pray there is funding, basically do a second doctorate in half the time for almost no pay, pray you find an associate professor gig at some state school that doesn't even supply a coat closet as lab space and pays less than working at Costco but demands you teach 4 sections of a gen-ed class while managing several grad students that you end up spending 20 hours a week writing grant proposals to help fund, at the same time you're forced to chair some departmental committee, and maybe by 40 you'll have a middle-class income and be on a tenure track... if your publications cut it and none of your coeds cry sexual harassment because you gave them a C for doing C work in that mind numbing 103 Introduction to Evolution class...

Or go private sector and make some money to pay off your loans and hang out with your friends on the weekends.

not a hard choice these days