This is a sentiment I've heard from a lot of my friends in academia. I hope the author isn't also similar to those friends of mine in another way: assuming tha

This is a sentiment I've heard from a lot of my friends in academia. I hope the author isn't also similar to those friends of mine in another way: assuming that the marketing job that private industry has done when comparing themselves to academia is true. That things are more rational and productive outside academia. That they won't just enter another game played by chickens with no heads that has slightly different rules. That they won't spend most of their time doing useless bullshit that the system demands they produce even though it does nothing to further the goals they are supposed to be advancing. I liked the piece, so I do hope the author ends up preferring the different kind of pointless make-work the alternatives provide him.