Sad but true. I once had dreams of a career in academia and research. I'm a molecular biologist turned computer scientist turned software engineer in industry.

Sad but true. I once had dreams of a career in academia and research. I'm a molecular biologist turned computer scientist turned software engineer in industry. I now have a very good salary, interesting challenges, plenty of work-life balance and good prospects for the future, and that's pretty much directly out of university. In my opinion, I would have to give up on all of the aforementioned benefits (sans interesting challenges) for at least the next 10 years if I wanted to stay in academia, and on top of that, add the nice non-zero chance of just getting stuck and be forced out of the academic "track". All my advisors told me it's a pretty bad time to go into academia, and I doubt it will get better, sadly, I might add.