"find a place with lots of PhD folks" Well, academia is full of them and I found it to be the worst place for petty office politics and daft rivalries, as the

"find a place with lots of PhD folks" Well, academia is full of them and I found it to be the worst place for petty office politics and daft rivalries, as the old saying goes: "Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre%27s_law