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Status Ironies of the Doctoral Degree - Pt. 1

Status Ironies of the Doctoral Degree - Pt. 1

Earning more does not equate to high social status

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“I have no idea what I’m going to do for a living now,” I said to my temp working peer as we ran simple kinesiological tests for prospective TSA security workers in 2002 at the Grand Hyatt near Chicago O’hare airport.

“Yeah, James, but at least you have a real education,” he replied, referring to my newly minted PhD. Dave was more than a year out of co…

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