" the freedom that comes with tenure to pursue whatever interests you is the only reason to stay and work the ridiculous hours required of post doc researchers.

" the freedom that comes with tenure to pursue whatever interests you is the only reason to stay and work the ridiculous hours required of post doc researchers." In other words, in return for being an indentured servant for a number years, you get to pay it forward by being a lazy ass taking credit for YOUR servants' excessive hours? The entire system is hosed. Education suffers, research suffers, and apparently the whole point of it is to serve as a multi-year hazing process in order to get tenure so that you can coast for the rest of your career? I'm glad I didn't pursue tenure... I thought IT was a waste of life, but tenure track is even worse. (Actually, I knew that before I left academia, I just didn't know how much of a waste of talent the IT industry would turn out to be.)