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I'm not ever wanting to work at Google, but that process resonates loudly with my experience of leaving academia. From the inside you're dealing with a lot of
by scarecrowbob 9y ago
I'm not ever wanting to work at Google, but that process resonates loudly with my experience of leaving academia.
From the inside you're dealing with a lot of people who have internalized the job as part of their identity and it's very difficult to just up and leave without formulating a narrative about why it's okay.
- nora4 9y agoVery much second that; one prof I worked for at MIT as TA kept insisting that s/he (and we) have the best job in the world. Quite ridiculous, as s/he later was denied tenure and had to move and their research was quite stuck and un-impactful. It was part of the personal narrative of the person (their identity) to keep telling that to themselves.