My objection on academia is that they will try to filter you, since there’s a limited number of positions and everyone’s angling for one.
It’s kind of a self-inflicted cult, if that makes any sense. You work single-mindedly in devotion to your specific niche interest because that’s what you’ve wanted to do since you were a teenager, and everything else you do there is a 9-5 that lets you justify access to a taxpayer/industry-funded research lab and a repository of free labor grad students.
My objection on academia is that they will try to filter you, since there’s a limited number of positions and everyone’s angling for one.
It’s kind of a self-inflicted cult, if that makes any sense. You work single-mindedly in devotion to your specific niche interest because that’s what you’ve wanted to do since you were a teenager, and everything else you do there is a 9-5 that lets you justify access to a taxpayer/industry-funded research lab and a repository of
free laborgrad students.