Re: FAO ERICKA Re: How many hours in daycare?

On Jun 11, 12:14 pm, Ericka Kammerer <e...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
cjra wrote:
I also found doing my PhD to be quite
well paid with convenient and flexible hours (I generally worked
8.15am-3.45pm..much better than an industry job and similar to school
hours).

Really? wow! No way could i have done a PhD in those hours!

I'm not sure Helen meant that she didn't work on her
PhD outside those hours, but perhaps any TA/RA work or other
work that had to be done away from home could be confined to
those hours. I'm sure she put in lots of hours at home too ;-)
FWIW, that was my experience as well at a Business school.

In the sciences, there isn't a lot of 'at home' work unless you're
writing a paper. The bulk of it is in the lab. Experiments can be
timed somewhat, but they often fall outside that 6-8 hr time frame.
It's my understanding that Business School involves a lot of
coursework, correct? A science PhD program, once past the first year
or so, is mostly like regular work in a lab with no courses except the
occasional journal club or lecture series.


While it
was flexible in that I didn't have to punch a clock or be there during
business hours, my days were typically 12+ days long for long periods
of time (and never less than 8 hours!) and a lot of weekends. The pay
was, pathetic (I was making a lot at $16K/year....before that it was
$11K in a high cost of living city). I know NIH has changed some of
it's pay scale standards for students recently, I'd be impressed if it
was 'well paid.'

There is *huge* variation in fields. My package as a
doctoral student was full tuition remission with either a TA or
RA position that paid about $3k/month. Sadly, the social sciences
and liberal arts doctoral students, even at the same university,
weren't getting anything near that :-( I remember that at the
time, my mother was working at one university as an adjunct
(with her PhD in medical sociology completed) and she was making
less than I was as a doctoral student TA with fewer classes than
she had.

Dang, that's pretty good! That's extremely well paid even for a post-
doc in academics (my first post-doc paid less than that, and it was
considered well-paying). The social sciences at the two universities
where I did graduate degrees were paid even less than that. I was in
an NIH funded science program. At one university TAs were paid in
addition to the stipend (the amount quoted above was in addition to a
tuition reimbursement) and that was by semester - a good amount was
$4K per 16 week course (no one ever did more than 1-2 courses, and the
TA-ships were usually reserved for those who didn't have research
assistanceships - I taught, tho I was on an RA, only because they were
desperate). At the other university, you weren't paid extra for
teaching. Granted this was a few years back, but not *that* long
ago.


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