I absolutely agree with this in that - if you're thinking about doing a PhD, you need to be okay with that even if it's just the PhD. The odds are, there will not be an academic job at the end.
However, we also need to be very clear on the realities of the PhD. It is not a good early graduate job.
The Georgian government follows the established authoritarian trajectory and now targets the independence of universities.
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On a more personal note, this will likely be my last conference for a while. I haven't had access to conference funding in the past two years, which means I've self-funded most of the expenses. As rewarding as it has been, it isn't a "hobby" one can easily sustain.
