Academia can be really chill as long as you don’t have aspirations for greatness
As someone who just likes doing bench work and absolutely never wants to be a PI I’d much rather stay in academia. No profit motive means much less pressure and no one checking too closely on what I’m doing.
My PI tells me what she wants, I tell her how long that will take and if I’ll need extra assistance, and then I give her the results when I have them. Then I fuck off whenever I want and as long as my rats get fed no one really questions it.
nah, give me academia vs working with clients. I hated that shit so much.
academia has been poisoned by MBAs so much that you only teach 10% of the time and the other 90% is doing pointless admin. it's almost exactly like a customer service job, at least for adjuncts/entry-level lecturers
The duality of humanity right here. I hated academics and I'm way happier facing clients. Because even if they're being unreasonable, they're still paying me more than a living wage which is more than I could say about my advisor
academia is great if you are into cock and ball torture
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