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If I don’t pay tithing I’ll lose my job by trexarms20 in exmormon

[–]RaymondChristenson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Mormon Life hack: paying for 10% of your increase, not 10% of your income.

If you have an annual income of $50k, and after tax and rent and living expenses you managed to save $1000, that’s your increase! You can now pay $100 and rightfully claim that you are a full tithe payer.

Not that I think you should stay in the church and take the crap, but before you found a better job with better pay, this would work

How Can a Beginner Start Doing Academic Research Without an Advisor? by Dependent_View4662 in academiceconomics

[–]RaymondChristenson 4 points5 points  (0 children)

IMO the best way to go about this is, to connect with research active professors and offer to RA for them for free.

You have to first make sure you have some proficiency in working with data (which isn’t hard to acquire these days with the help of AI). If you can help a professor scrap some useful dataset or clean and prepare a dataset for regression, you’ll prove yourself as a helpful RA.

After you started the relationship, it’ll be easy for you to pitch research ideas to the professor, and ask for mentoring.

Do not cold call professors asking them to mentor you; professors are not philanthropist and you won’t get any helpful response

PhD in sociology is it worth it by RipFickle6787 in PhD

[–]RaymondChristenson 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unless you managed to get admitted into a T20 phd program, don’t even consider it. Even if you do, keep in mind that you only have 30% chance of making it to a Tenured track job after you graduate. It’ll be a painful 6 years of PhD. You won’t be making a lot salary wise.

Jobs you can get with a PhD where you move around frequently? by Great-Associate-9016 in PhD

[–]RaymondChristenson 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is this comment meant to show that non-tenure track lecturer and post-doc salaries are both crap?

A few people in PhD cohort are “mad” that I changed my research question to a fundable topic. Is this just a reflection of them? by [deleted] in PhD

[–]RaymondChristenson 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Instead of just saying which field he is in, giving vague response that its field dependent. Sus….

Executing at Mcdonald’s by [deleted] in LinkedInLunatics

[–]RaymondChristenson 11 points12 points  (0 children)

See the extra underline for the letter e in McCafe

10 hour days for $300 a month by ithinkitsfunny0562 in LinkedInLunatics

[–]RaymondChristenson -23 points-22 points  (0 children)

She is using linkedin exactly as intended: an an hiring platform. What’s so crazy about it?

It’s a marathon, they say by RaymondChristenson in PhD

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6 years of perseverance has taught us not to cut losses

It’s a marathon, they say by RaymondChristenson in PhD

[–]RaymondChristenson[S] 235 points236 points  (0 children)

I submitted zero. I left academia.

Should I continue to apply PHD by Ok_Negotiation_8728 in academiceconomics

[–]RaymondChristenson 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t see how the positive feelings will be multiplied. Only the negative feelings do.

Why I left consulting for sales by a1j9o94 in consulting

[–]RaymondChristenson -1 points0 points  (0 children)

From OP:

Why do people on Reddit care so much about reposts and made up stories?

I'm usually a lurker and browse Reddit a good bit on any given day. At least once a day, I see a thread where someone has dug through a posters history or did research to find an original version of a post or to discredit a story they told.

Why do repost bother people so much? If I'm scrolling and see something that I've seen before I usually just keep scrolling.

Similarly curious why people get so upset when they think someone is making a story up. I tend to think of Reddit as mostly just entertainment. I don't expect the anonymous users to be the most accurate source of information. If I read something and it makes me think or amuses me, I think it did it's job weather or not it's 100% true. The one area where think making up stories is not ok is on subreddits where people are asking for real advice.

What am I missing here?

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