# Is a PhD the path to a grad job? Ask the waitress with several degrees

A PhD turned waitress

So, here I sit, a disgruntled graduate of the system. A PhD turned waitress. A waste of taxpayer money, of my own time and that of the people who taught me. I write this as a means to speak out, as I refuse to be another cog in the wheel that turns according to a code of silence.

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