Comment by lazide

Many schools are not very good at teaching real world skills. Always been this way.

It’s why ‘self taught’ in many disciplines is very doable too, if someone focuses on what people actually want/need.

They might not be good at articulating the differences between fizzbuzz and bubble sort, but they can get shit done that works.

Every PhD that I know that went from Academia to Industry immediately had their stress levels decrease 10x and their pay roughly double too - because they could finally do a thing, see if it worked or not, and if it did, get paid more.

Instead of insane constant bullshitting and reputation management/politics with a hint of real application maybe sprinkled in. Few ‘knives’ have to be as sharp as the academics, in my experience.