On: Graduate students question career options

[nomadiccoder]

Orders? Plural? This is not true. Youre likely to make 90 percentile

[vkou → nomadiccoder]

Sorry, I suppose being a professional musician is one field with similar requirements for skill versus pay. Nobody's going to pay any money to a middle-quintile piano player, just like nobody in academia is going to pay any money to a freshly-minted middle-quintile PHD.

[dalbasal → vkou]

Middle quintile?

[leereeves → dalbasal]

In percentiles, 40% to 60%.

[vkou → dalbasal]

Someone in the middle 20% of competence at a skill or profession.