Dimitris Servis
Not to worry.
Unless, of course, one has an understanding about what obtaining or having a Ph. D. entails. A lot of people don't. (I'll give you a personal example. At the place where I used to teach, there was a secretary who had no idea of what was involved in completing a thesis. One day, she asked me, "You've been working on it for three months. Aren't you finished with it yet?")
The fact that one might have acquire knowledge or techniques which are not only useful but also applicable to the job in question doesn't seem to occur to those same people.
In order to make those decisions, one has to do the calculations first. Then comes the fun part: interpreting what the calculations signify and what to do next.
"Should we use this kind of engine or the other?" is an
The degree to which this is done comes with experience, but, still, there can be no conceivable harm in doing that. Sometimes, it's those profound details that will the the ones that will catch up with you.
Of course, most of the time he-she thinks
Then again, one should remember the axiom that there's never time to do things right but always time to do them over again.
By the time you're half way to some
That's not always a good idea. What one learns on one project could prove useful later on. It's saved my hide a few times in industry.
Likewise, industrial practices are rarely useful
I drove some people around the bend because I handled my Ph. D. thesis like any other project I worked on in industry. I had a fairly good idea what I was trying to accomplish and organized my work on a schedule. On top of that, my industrial experience proved useful in interpreting my results.
Career advise PhD or MBA 14I agree with what you say, yet you probably do see yourself that not all people are the same. You may be the exception, but I am...
Of course there may be exceptions, but I
Again, some of that can be made redundant through judgement based upon experience.
Practical people
And people wonder why buildings collapse. BTW, CBC Radio One's series "Ideas" presented a pair of programs based upon the book "Why Buildings Fall Down". Some of the cases cited could have been prevented if someone had done the analysis to the Ph. D. level of precision.
