Are you taking your PhD for the sake of learning or so that you can be more efficient in your job? Or both?

Question: Are you taking your PhD for the sake of learning or so that you can be more efficient in your job? Or both?
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Asked by Englebert to Kristen on 16 Jun 2015.
- Kristen Salzer-Frost answered on 16 Jun 2015:
  
  Both 🙂
  The problem that I’m working on is a way of combing two different computer models that are currently used separately. Once it becomes commercially available (I’m doing the prototype for my PhD, so it will be a while), it will be very useful in my job, as we currently have to manually work out how the results of the two models work together.
  But, a PhD is a lot of work! It is three years working on the same problem, so it is really important to enjoy it. I’m really happy to say that I am still loving it 🙂

Question: Are you taking your PhD for the sake of learning or so that you can be more efficient in your job? Or both?