"it feels kind of like a gamble on the direction of my entire life."
YouTuber Zara Dar announced she has quit her engineering PhD to become an OnlyFans model.
The Texas-based content creator, a former advocate for women in science and technology, posted a YouTube video explaining why she stopped pursuing her doctorate to focus on OnlyFans.
In the video titled PhD dropout to OnlyFans model, Zara admitted it was a difficult decision.
She said: “I’ve cried so much over this decision to quit my PhD because it’s a stressful decision, not that I’m particularly sad.
“Moving on to doing OnlyFans and content creation full-time it’s not just a career choice it feels kind of like a gamble on the direction of my entire life.”
With over 100,000 YouTube subscribers, Zara’s past videos included tutorials on machine learning and neural networks.
On why she dropped out of her PhD, Zara weighed the potential benefits of a career in academia with the alternative path of becoming a professor and mentoring students.
But this lifestyle came with its drawbacks and it influenced her decision to quit her PhD.
Zara continued: “People whose lifestyles I thought I envied are tied to someone else’s vision.
“They’ll spend their lives working for a company and doing things they don’t necessarily enjoy.”
Stating that these people never get the recognition they deserve, Zara said:
“Their work might win someone else’s wealth and fame while they stay in the background.
“Expendable, they will constantly worry about getting laid off and planning their lives around their salaries, budgeting to pay bills and likely renting a place to live.”
She said she imagined a different life where she was not bound by the “expectations of an academic institution or the constraints of a corporate office”.
By choosing not to pursue academia or a tech job, Zara explained that she could explore and learn about topics that interested her, not just those deemed important by a funding agency.
She began creating content on OnlyFans while she was pursuing her doctorate.
Through OnlyFans, Zara has earned $1 million, money that she has used to pay off her family’s mortgage and buy a car for herself.
Zara said:
“Thankfully I avoided taking out any student loans.”
“Now I have an investment portfolio and I am planning to buy my own house.
“All of these achievements are just reminders of the tangible rewards of carving my own path and the freedom that comes with it.”
She ended the video by reiterating that most professors in America earn $100,000 a year and spend their time writing grant proposals instead of doing research.
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