How does it feel to study for a PhD in Economics?

How about your feelings? Hard work. . .

Choosing to study for a Ph.D. is choosing a lifestyle, and it is a very luxurious experience.

When all the master’s students have graduated and are getting married when it’s time to get married, making money when it’s time to make money, and enjoying things when it’s time to enjoy, you are still in school, reading literature, writing code, and dealing with garbage in the office every day. When reading data, it is inevitable that I will feel disappointed.

If you calculate it, if you go to work in the industry after graduating with a master's degree, the salary you earn should not be worse than in school. If you discount it, you may find that studying for a free PhD is really a luxury. .

Sometimes I also think that if I had quit my master's degree and Ph.D., I would have had a stable job, got married, and even had children by now. But now, I have no money, no time, and no wife.

But why do you still want to study for a PhD in economics?

Because I like freedom. Studying for a PhD, or even working later, at least you can do the research you like, and you can do whatever you want. You don’t have to complete the research tasks assigned to you by your boss that you are not interested in at all, and you don’t have to stare at the stocks every day and bear the pressure of the company’s profitability. In this industry, as long as you can do what you like to do well, you will be recognized.

In this industry, you don’t have to put so many labels on yourself, you don’t have to wear suits every day, deal with picky customers, and you don’t have to constrain yourself with some external wealth and status. , you will not be defined by these external things. Studying for a PhD is very difficult. Every day there are endless documents, endless data to process, and endless papers to write. I often think of a good idea and find that someone has already done it. It was difficult to estimate a result, which was not significant. It's okay if it's not obvious, but the opposite sign is the most troublesome.

However, the process is not difficult, and there is no sense of accomplishment after finishing it.

I remember that the slogan of our 1900 Studio was that happiness comes from creation.

The greatest joy of studying for a PhD is to create something that interests you.