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Poverty forced me to deviate from pursuit of my PhD in Physics and take a job as a repairman at a phone company. I learned very quickly that a skilled union job pays far better than any job availible to most Physics PhDs. And if one puts in anywhere near the time required for a thesis into overtime you are rewarded with an income approaching 6 figures. It is amazing to me that those of us who build and maintain the net are compensated far better than most of those who provide its content. Goodbye academia forever!