{"id":20136,"date":"2010-06-04T14:19:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/la_times-universities_are_offering_doctorates_but_few_jobs\/"},"modified":"2010-06-04T14:19:16","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T14:19:16","slug":"la_times-universities_are_offering_doctorates_but_few_jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20136","title":{"rendered":"LA Times&#8211;Universities are offering doctorates but few jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As they walk in hooded robes to the strains of &#8220;Pomp and Circumstance,&#8221; many students getting their doctorates this spring dream of heading to another university to begin their careers as tenure-track professors.<\/p>\n<p>But when Elena Stover finished her doctorate in September, she headed to the poker tables. Frustrated with the limited opportunities and grueling lifestyle of academia, Stover, 29, decided to eschew a career in cognitive neuroscience for one playing online poker. She got the idea from a UCLA career counselor, who was trying to help her find employment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The job market is abysmal, especially within the academic system,&#8221; said Stover, who spent six years getting her doctorate at UCLA.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-phd-blues-20100604,0,3338949,print.story\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As they walk in hooded robes to the strains of &#8220;Pomp and Circumstance,&#8221; many students getting their doctorates this spring dream of heading to another university to begin their careers as tenure-track professors. But when Elena Stover finished her doctorate<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=20136\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,589,149,111,597],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-education","category-laborlabor-unionslabor-market"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}