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Social science PhD advice

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Springfern · 21/08/2019 21:09

I am currently writing up my PhD, social sciences, purely qualitative. Im thinking about my next move and want some advice. I want to move out of academia and am wondering, to what? I want to earn well (I'm not materialistic but I have no close family and want to feel secure). I have previous experience in the charity sector, both research and frontline (poorly paid so dont want to go back to that). What are my options? I'm starting to feel.like a qualitative PhD is useless outside of academia. Is it?!

Thanks in advance

OP posts:

lljkk · 22/08/2019 20:52

You must be good at critical thinking.
Didn't Helena Morrisey get 1st degree in philosophy?
She's well minted, now.

lljkk · 22/08/2019 20:52

sorry.. posted too soon. HM's degree was a 2.1 IIRC.

coffeemonster28 · 23/08/2019 11:02

I have a qualitative sociology PhD (2009) and have reinvented myself as project manager in higher education; have been an IT project manager for the past three years. So not necessarily useless - it took a while to get there, I have a very stable job which is portable to a number of different sectors, the prospects are good even if the work isn't exactly exciting. You do have options, feel free to PM me if you want to talk about project management.

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