[FormerRep]

Gaah! Even though you said it in jest the old value argument of MS vs PhD is still irksome. I think TQC will verify that we of the Masters level do as much of the physical, mental and report/grant/budget writing as a PhD. The only functional difference is the starting salary that a dissertation can earn you over our “poor misunderstood” thesis.

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

I think TQC will verify that we of the Masters level do as much of the physical, mental and report/grant/budget writing as a PhD. The only functional difference is the starting salary that a dissertation can earn you over our “poor misunderstood” thesis.

True dat. Though I have to admit, even with the Masters, the industry does pretty right by you.

When people ask me what I do all day, half the time I have to tell them, "Paperwork."

[antiRepublicrat]

I think TQC will verify that we of the Masters level do as much of the physical, mental and report/grant/budget writing as a PhD.

The difference is even greater when the doctorate is from a diploma mill, accredited by an accreditation mill.

I used to hang around with a lot of you biological sciences types, even dated one for a while. I lived close to a major biological research center and near a university famed for its biological program. I ended up in the "crowd" because of a PhD I met at a party and became friends with, and because of the aforementioned girlfriend. The value of the work definitely isn't proportional to degree earned. My girlfriend was a hard-working Masters, and she'd complain about some lazy doctorates. But then I may have been biased towards her. :)