Your PhD publications means nothing to the Industries

Of course when Hiring managers visit you at Campus, they would always put their foot in their mouth and will flaunt how important publications are for securing a Job. But in reality, it is one of the biggest lies that they spill during their Campus talks.

Tell us something, do you really think that you would be working in the area of your Research? To tell you the truth, there is a huge gap between what you learn and what is being applied in the Industry.

The things that are being Applied in industries are decades ahead. For the simple reason, that your Professors and PhD Advisors are merely Academicians who haven’t the slightest clue, either what the Industries are going through, or what business model they are banking on to bring in the revenue.

In other words, your academic board that is scrutinizing you, has no operational knowledge as to what is exactly happening in their pertinent industries. This is the hard truth, but as said, know the truth and the truth shall set you free.

Secondly, all of the publications that you find in Academic journals, even the ones which boast of being on the top of the cream, merely focus on Principles and models that are either outdated or at least leagues behind the ones that current Industries follow.

Get in and Get your Hands Dirty

For Industries care a least as to what you cook in your Labs and then on Publish. Of course, we know for sure that this is how Universities brain wash their aspiring scholars. The fear of Publish or Perish, keeps the pursuing scholars slaves to their Academic Supervisors and subsequently the Universities, alive.

But the hard truth is, it is not seeing the video simulation of war that would save a solider, but the hard training of hitting the Iron, night and day, coupled with stringent Combat skill sets, with weapon handling and character building, will.

The best example would be that of Mr. Henry Ford. It has been said that Henry Ford merely had 3 moths of Education. To the normal person, Henry Ford, comes off as an illiterate.

Even the Newspapers of that time, viewed and treated Mr. Henry Ford, with contempt. But what the then world failed to learn is the fact that Mr. Henry Ford, had the inert ability to discern Knowledge and apply it far better than the best learned brains of the times.

No matter what you learn, if you cannot Organize the learning into applicable skills, it means nothing. For only Knowledge that is Applicable earns money, and in the world today, anything that doesn’t earn a dime, is considered Null and void, this includes even the Educated Scholars owning PhDs and Post Docs.

This is heartening, after all, investing the best part of one’s life in trying to get a degree, which is considered the cream of the Crop, by the Academic world, yet still, in reality means nothing to the Industries. It is indeed a hard thing to digest. But the sooner a person knows the truth, the better it is.

Time waits for no man or woman

Time is every moving. Yesterday you were a little girl running up and down, filled with bubbling energy, a darling to the family, young, agile and with lots of ambition. Today, with 10 years off the charts you are wondering where would you go after a doctoral degree. With streaks of silver grey lingering here and there, and still single, with thirty around the corner. At times you do wonder, “how fast time flew?”

In reality, Time was all the time moving at the same phase, but it is who had completely lost sense of time, immersed in your lab, running behind arrogant and merciless supervisors and advisors, who think that they are from Cloud 11 and by admitting you into the Ph.D Program, have done you a favor. But on the Contrary, they have merely made you null and void.

It is said, all of the education that Higher learning offers is merely to expand the mind in directions which are merely Potential. In other words, your knowledge is merely of Philosophic value and not pertinent to be used by the Common man. When the Common man doesn’t use the Knowledge then there is no money to be made.

In other words, there was a time when Stoic philosophy and Socratic way of life was well respected and adored, today the World merely understands just one Philosophy, and that is the Philosophy of Money. So the underlying point is, Time is fleeting, so use it well, so that you will always have gas to heat your rooms up.