Gearbox has ruined their name with me when they lied and put out a substandard Alien game . Never again will I be tricked by Randy Pitchford . <| sep |> Daft punk is my shit , great job on the legs <| sep |> It was marked platinum , but I only got gold ? <| sep |> He ' s charging it right now he can ' t reply <| sep |> Sure , but getting a PhD is one of the most inefficient ways to prepare for an alternative career that doesn ' t require a doctorate , and the opportunity costs of the years spent making a grad school postdoc stipend are very high . If I had known all along that I was going to end up working in a job where most of my colleagues did a 12 year master ' s degree , would I have chosen to spend 8 years in grad school ? I started an alternative career 6 months ago . If I ' d done a 2 year master ' s instead , I would have 6 more years of real work experience , raisesperformance bonuses , and employermatched retirement savings , plus fully vested stock options by now . I left around $ 250 , 000 on the table by not starting this career sooner aka one year of R 01 funding I know none of us labrats ever think in numbers that high related to our own personal income . But hey , at least people will call me Doctor for the rest of my life . I value the education and experience I got during my PhD , and I do think its value encompasses much more than earning potential . But doing the math sure is depressing .