" if you get a PhD in the hopes of becoming a professor, you’re delusional and naive and once you do you’ll never find a job and you’ll spend your whole life trying to please some pompous admission committee and you’ll end up poor and depressed and stressed out and you’ll die alone"
Let’s face it. People with CS degrees (especially PhDs) are not breaking down doors to enter academics. If you were talking about biology, then I"d understand. If you were talking about neuroscience or psychology I’d understand. But Computer Science? If you have the skills and aptitude, and if you end up liking research, then it is certainly a very reasonable career choice but lower paid than your other options will be.