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Academia tends to be fairly low stress.
by collyw 8y ago
Academia tends to be fairly low stress.
- CyberFonic 8y agoOnly a non-academic would say that. From my experiences in STEM academia (not history, or some such). Today, universities are run by professional managers. It is all about money. So you are writing papers, applying for grants, teaching a hundred or so students, working on 5-6 committees, involved in 2-3 conferences per year, etc. It is rare for an academic to work less than 70 hours a week and for far less money than in industry.
- collyw 8y agoI worked in academia for a number of years. Not as a researcher but as a technician.
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- voltooid 8y agoDefinitely not. https://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-that-no-one-talks-about/ https://qz.com/547641/theres-an-awful-cost-to-getting-a-phd-... (Most of the article is anecdotal but it does make references to studies & statistics of self-reported stress levels among academics.)
- collyw 8y agoOk, that's a PhD, I am not going to argue against that but there are plenty of non-research jobs in academia.