Thank you for writing this out. Being able to do the things that drew me to academia (understanding important problems; sharing this understanding with others; impacting important decisions), without the fucked up shit that characterises academia (publication rut, endless grant applications, financial precarity, being stuck on minor easily graspable problems rather than the actual bigger problems, blinkers on between fields, resistance to change, idealising authority, elitism, slow turnaround times, etc.) would be fucking fantastic, and I have long wondered how I could get it done.
Thank you for writing this out. Being able to do the things that drew me to academia (understanding important problems; sharing this understanding with others; impacting important decisions), without the fucked up shit that characterises academia (publication rut, endless grant applications, financial precarity, being stuck on minor easily graspable problems rather than the actual bigger problems, blinkers on between fields, resistance to change, idealising authority, elitism, slow turnaround times, etc.) would be fucking fantastic, and I have long wondered how I could get it done.