PhD in Linguistics: Which skills should I focus on?

Hey everyone! I am a social scientist by heart, heavily focusing on social psychology & communication science. Recently, I was admitted to a funded PhD position combining linguistics (with a focus on LLMs) and a little bit of computer science with my actual fields. Now, I would love to stay in academia after finishing my PhD, but I also feel like I need to prepare an alternative route in case academia doesn't play out for me. Therefore, I was wondering, …

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