> You are unlikely to ever achieve a position in industry that has the same freedom of investigation and time that you experienced as a graduate student, let al

> You are unlikely to ever achieve a position in industry that has the same freedom of investigation and time that you experienced as a graduate student, let alone the holy grail of a self-funded post-doc or the like. On the other hand, you won't achieve that as faculty either. which explains my advisor's "enjoy it while you still can!" attitude whenever we talk of such things :)