locustfish

The reason I am doing my phd is purely just interest in a specific topic and want to go deeper into it, nothing more. I am personally not a huge fan for complex equations, so honest, I am not quite sure about academic jobs. Another thing is my school is not a top 20 school, that will make it even harder to get an academic job. Sounds like it would be wise to take the external funding :-)

Hi all, I am new to this forum, but it seems like this is the right place to ask. I started my phd a year ago on an decent school because my advisor was kind enough to let me work on any topic I desire and provides me with RA assistantship. I recently applied and got rewarded a scholarship that's about 16k more than my current RA salary annually until my intended graduation, but the condition is to stay with that company for 4 years afterwards. The company has pretty good future, but I won't call it a pure research company either. What do you all think ? Should I accept the external funding or continue with the RA assistantship.