I have one. Here's how to do it:
a) get an MA
b) get a job - work at least 5 years
c) go back for your Ph.D.
Advantages - you will have to be motivated enough to give up a pay cheque. However, being more mature than the other kids, you will get financial aid first.
You gain a lot of credibility in industry with a Doctorate...people defer to you on all things scientific. And you join an elite club, though not quite as elite as it used to be before they required all professors to have a Ph.D., forcing colleges to hand them out to people like me to keep the supply of professors steady.
Oh, and put your all your advisers on every paper you publish. It is hard to deny someone a degree after they have published 5 papers that you agreed with so much you put your name to it.
And get rid of that foolinsh "create an account" waste of time - do you really believe any data entered these is not junk?
Dr. J. K.
Advantages - you will have to be motivated enough to give up a pay cheque. However, being more mature than the other kids, you will get financial aid first.
You gain a lot of credibility in industry with a Doctorate...people defer to you on all things scientific. And you join an elite club, though not quite as elite as it used to be before they required all professors to have a Ph.D., forcing colleges to hand them out to people like me to keep the supply of professors steady.
Oh, and put your all your advisers on every paper you publish. It is hard to deny someone a degree after they have published 5 papers that you agreed with so much you put your name to it.
And get rid of that foolinsh "create an account" waste of time - do you really believe any data entered these is not junk? Dr. J. K.