Something doesn't add up here:
All of the headlines say that the US economy added 272,000 jobs in May.
However, when you dig deeper into the data you can see that full-time employment actually FELL by -625,000.
Meanwhile, part-time employment rose by 286,000 along with the unemployment rate to 4.0%.
This is the biggest drop in full-time employment since December 2023.
It's also the first month with 4.0%+ unemployment since February 2022.
How is this a "strong" labor market?
To new PhD students, it’s very normal to feel like you haven’t done anything in the first few weeks, and even months of your PhD.
But what you have done is arguably the most useful part of your PhD - learning about your field, reading papers, and determining what avenue your PhD will go, greatly affects the rest of your PhD.
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