walmart pays more than graduate school
Recently I've been contemplating the consequences of dreaming to be a doctorate degree holder. I have grown in a society where the more degrees one holds, the more respect they get. Ironically this the same society that negates and undervalues all such achievements by women. So it really is a lose lose for women. But in most cases, in order to have a semblance of respectable existence, women in the southasian culture simply choose one side of the lose-lose and move on. So, very early on I had decided to go for higher studies and as a result didnot much think about the financial consequences of that choice. Now that I am 3 years into my PhD, this having done a masters first and having gained a year of work experience, I realize that this might not have been the best course of financial decision for my life. As it turns out, a grad students stipend is much less than even someone working at Walmart, McDonald's and pretty much anywhere else. The minimum wage for ontario...