Quote Originally Posted by 'tommyg',index.php?page=Thread&postID=46689#post46 689
PhD candidate, studying Computer Science, specifically Bioinformatics. I make 10k per year (that's no typo, 10k per year) after student fees with my research assistantship. Basically, I write my own custom data mining tools in C# to be used on protein networks and ontologies. The actual work and the flexible schedule are nice, but I would have done something different if I had to do it all over again.
haha, grad school, good times. Before I split on my PhD, I was making 19k a year-- a while ago admittedly -- however, that's for living in Cambridge, MA, which could well be worse than 10k/yr. I knew people who lived in people's attics, and still the rent wasn't cheap. Somehow, though, I didn't think it was a big deal.