Sorry I didnt wanna boast or anything. It was just a question what other people think about this point raised by my advisor. Obviously I am lucky because I have a great supervisor, never could have done this on my own!
My field is Computer Science, and I cant wait to go back to industrie after the PhD. I assume there the publications dont count so much...
I'd say generally you're wasting your time publishing if you have no intention of pursuing an academic career. The only thing that may hold sway in industry is a ground-breaking published thesis - so maybe concentrate on getting a publisher for your thesis rather than doing papers.
'My field is Computer Science, and I cant wait to go back to industrie after the PhD. I assume there the publications dont count so much...'
So is mine - and I now work in industry.
Your PhD and publication count, 'count' for absolutely nothing and most IT employers really didn't care that I was doing a PhD, only that I had my BSc...
As for bothering to do one.. I suppose everyone has their own reasons, mine were most unsual and I don't regret it at all as I knew it wouldn't 'count' in industry...
I hope you appreciate it's probably going to be the same for you, Liverbird...
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