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Sometimes it felt like actually developing strategies to deal with all these things is a big part of what you're learning while doing a Ph.D. Of course, there is often little support and you're more or less alone having to figure it all out, which is unnecessary suffering.
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I'd say the biggest cultural issue is that you often feel like you cannot admit struggling with any of these. Luckily through most of my academic time I was in a team of great people and there were always people you could be real with.
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At least, compared to some hoops corporate life makes you jump through, I'd say that doing a Ph.D. paid off for me personally. Then again, universities had decades to shape the process.