> Many PhDs do mind-numbingly boring work, even if it's original research There's a second trade-off here too. PhD/Postdocs do stuff that's mind-numbingly bor

> Many PhDs do mind-numbingly boring work, even if it's original research There's a second trade-off here too. PhD/Postdocs do stuff that's mind-numbingly boring at a "micro" level (e.g., actually performing most experiments), but really exciting at a macro level (e.g., figuring out how the brain--or the Sun--works). In industry, there's often the opposite opportunity: exciting day-to-day work for uninteresting goals, like using state-of-the-art machine learning (fun!) to figure out whether a webpage should show a Papa John's or Pizza Hut ad (meh).