Originally Posted by deacongirl
You cannot be serious. I would like to put you in a room with my SIL who has her PhD in genetics and is teaching high school science (happily) now. She doesn't consider the years obtaining her PhD wasted because she isn't on tenure track at a major university.

Again, he's only expressing the fact that only certain Ph.D. holders are relevant.

If you are teaching high school, then, by definition, you are not relevant to the further development of novel research at a relevant institution.

It's not a personal question of "waste" or "happiness", but a social, collective, question of relevance.