| Comment | It's interesting, because for most disciplines getting an academic position is the only way to ensure a stable career, and like you say then you have grant pressure etc
Whereas I've happily stayed a researcher because I only need to win funding sufficient to cover myself (and because of the volume of grants I'm in demand with academics to work on their bids and they do it for me), and so I don't really need to worry about job security, and can get on with doing the actual interesting research with minimum exposure to internal politics
Only downside is you have to consciously ignore how much more money you could be making in industry, I took a pretty hefty pay cut to come into academia and still haven't closed the gap, and now the pensions are for the chop |
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