Career Panel
summary
Panel records concrete tradeoffs: PhD pays off only for a topic one loves and funded positions matter; freelancing means being hired as an instant expert on six‑month contracts while employment buys time to learn; consulting sells change not widgets and often requires coaching clients through migrations like SQL rewrites; examples range from graph‑visualization research used in industry to a failed student ticketing startup and commercial medical‑device work; remote work proves reliable through COVID and soft skills and networks move careers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 1:16How To Lead a Team of Consultants
- 18:40Difference between Being Employed and Being a Freelancer or a Contractor
- 22:06How Do We Develop and Grow When We'Re Supposed To Be Experts All the Time
- 35:02Do You See a Big Difference between Your Work and Consulting Work
- 40:31Why You Should Do a Phd
- 49:26Audience Questions
