申请business school 的 phd还是要慎重一些的。这个profession是非常难混的。5-6年phd是一个大的commitment and investment。如果侥幸survive下来， 还要fight for a job。 然后呢， 就是fight with referees, fight with co-authors, and fight for tenure。。。不是对research真的感兴趣的， 还是别往里跳了。。。 -- by 会员 xiaotian24 (2011/5/12 11:24:32)
看到这儿不能不说两句了。lz的情况和我非常相似，你的motivation我都很理解。想申请PhD并不是因为无路可走，而是真心觉得research，academia是条不错的路。趁着还算年轻想折腾就放手做吧。我目前的想法是，就试着申请一年，申不到的话最坏的结果就是继续工作呗。There's nothing to lose except for some free time. 说到时间还是挺难的，每天下班都好累了，打不起精神看论文。而且身边又没有一起准备的朋友，要self-motivate也不容易。
It depends. Lot of people (including myself and friends) had opportunities but choose to do a PhD. Some people don't like the works offered to undergrads and that is why they do a phd. IBD and consulting are both people-relationship jobs. They can get nasty, especially if your clients are Chinese (or worse, government related). Some people rather spend the night thinking about research (academia) or pondering about trading techniques (phd-industry) rather than spend the night drinking or kareoking (i give up, i can't even spell it) with their clients.
PS: Even if you start in states, for those people jobs quite some chinese either get send back to china or put to deal with chinese clients overseas.
That said, if you like to spend the night with your clients drinking, kareoking, or in onsen, PhD is not appropriate.
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