I know academia is a precarious and difficult field but I am *so* tired of the whole & #39;do not do a PhD& #39; tweets. I get that it& #39;s just people being honest about their lived experience but as a final year PhD it& #39;s a bit gutting to read every single day about my lack of future.

I know this is a very & #39;head in the sand& #39; tweet and not directed at those posting about their own personal job rejections etc, it& #39;s more the sweepingly long threads about how shit everything is that bug me. It& #39;s constant and is really demotivating.

TLDR - pleasant lies over disheartening truths pls.

Not advocating toxic positivity either - so basically I have no solution to this or any idea of what I want people to do instead. Just a vague idea of how it makes me feel.