What salary can a person get with a PhD in Computer Science?
If you want to teach college, you'd start out in a postdoc for the first 2-6 years (35k to 55k a year) and then start out making 45k to 80k as a professor depending on the school. You'd make more in industry; starting salaries in the 80k - 120k range. But there's really no point in getting a PhD in computer science unless you want to teach it; the skills you'd learn are only good for original research, not for programming - you can do that and make good money with a bachelors.
I need an easy PhD in Computer Science from an easy university with funding - Where should I go?
This question makes me wonder what you plan on getting out of your PhD. Do you realize that easy schools will result in an inferior education? Do you realize that a PhD has more to do with what you do then where you go? A PhD is a lot of work, from any school. And it is work that you do. It is not class work. It is research on a subject of your choosing. It is the token showing that you have advanced beyond student to become an expert in the field. That is not easy. But I guess if you want an easy PhD, you can just turn your spam filter off and look through those messages until you find one of those programs where you simply buy a diploma. That is easy.
Was it fair for several world-class professors to turn me down for a PhD because of my arrogance? They even admitted I had the most impressive resume they've ever seen (1st author in several top journals). They took less qualified candidates instead.
I have been told (by someone trying to coach me) that there is a line between supreme self-confidence and arrogance. I would work with the person with self-confidence any day because a healthy ego is good to have on a team. However, I really don’t have time to work with people who have all the answers - or think they do.When my committee chair was working with me, I was able to show her that I had a plan, that I already had a basis for building the proposal, and that I understood many of the issues involved. After that first meeting, she told me that I had planned so well, she wondered how big my ego was. Instead it was a lot of years of professional work in which I was trying to anticipate questions, issues, setbacks, backup plans, and on and on. It was when I started telling her where I thought I needed help and started asking questions, that she realized she was dealing with someone with experience in the real world.So, back that up. I have learned the hard way how to deal with big egos among program managers and engineers. I have worked with arrogant engineers who really don’t have all the answers they need in order to do a project. I have seen where arrogance can set a program back by several months or cause it to fail.This is why very few things in the world are built on individual effort. You have to work with a team. And a big ego is antithetical to productive teamwork.So, to the OP, I would counsel thinking long and hard about the term “intellectual humility.” You aren’t as smart or good as you think you are. You’re human.
How does pursuing a PhD program affect the personal life of the student?
There are a number of ways in which pursuit of a PhD can affect a student's personal life. Not every PhD student experiences all of the following (or even any of them), but all of them can happen.Unless your PhD program is very small, being in the program gives you a natural pool of potential friends, namely the other students in the program. The workload of a PhD program can make it hard to find time for social life.For people who struggle to make friends, the workload can turn into a way rationalize not socializing (and not working on improving one's social skills). I've struggled quite a bit with social anxiety, and I can't tell you how many times I've turned down an invitation with some variant of "I really should get some work done." Most of the time, I believed it myself. I did have work to do. But was it so urgent that I needed to be working on it from 8PM to 10PM on a Saturday night? Or Thanksgiving evening? Maybe a couple of times, but not usually.Being in a PhD program can be more than a little bit soul-crushing. You have to devote most of your time to one thing, and sometimes that thing doesn't go well for months or years on end. This can make it psychologically difficult to pursue romantic relationships. It's hard to imagine convincing somebody to love you when you don't have anything in your life that's going well. Failing at life just isn't very attractive to most people.It's hard to pursue relationships when you have no idea where you'll live next year. That makes things difficult for PhD students nearing completion of their degrees.
Womyn, is a guy who is ex-Army Special Forces, has a PhD and works in Wall Street attractive to you?
You didn't tell them whether or not he's a dickbag. That's a more relevant piece of information than anything you brought up.