| Comment | I'm a PhD student, making about £25k overall (About £17k as a stipend, around £3k a year from some part-time tutoring and about £5k from disability money). I could have definitely made more going straight into an industry (I do something pretty tech-adjacent), but at the moment it's more than enough for me to live decently on my one, put money towards hobbies and also build up savings, so I'm happy doing that and having a job with quite a lot of flexibility/variety. Not sure if I'll want to stick in academia yet (I'm quite enjoying teaching and I might stick with something that lets me do teaching of some variety), but my PhD's decently practical too so I have a bit of flexibility in that regard. |
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