Hah, I don't really enjoying revisiting my decision making but I'll try to answer. I've been away for just over a year and I miss the people and the freedom but

Hah, I don't really enjoying revisiting my decision making but I'll try to answer. I've been away for just over a year and I miss the people and the freedom but I don't miss the politics and the rat race. Grad school was successful. However, my postdoc was a different story, I got a relatively prestigious fellowship at a DOE lab but my supervisor quit before I started and I tried to do my own stuff but really didn't get much support and it wasn't much fun or productive. I quit after 2 years, about 1 year ago and joined a small biotech company in the bay area. I'm pretty sure I already have too large a gap in my publications to go back, I thought about going back to academia for a bit but that would have entailed doing a 2nd postdoc but I really wasn't interested in moving some random place for 3+ years, then dealing with the whole faculty application process again and 5+ more years before eventually getting tenure. If you don't hate writing grants maybe academia can be for you. Good luck.