Precisely my point, near-term overwork for a possibility of a “permanent” job later on, but many people who get there sacrifice family life, get divorced, and w

Precisely my point, near-term overwork for a possibility of a “permanent” job later on, but many people who get there sacrifice family life, get divorced, and win something of a pyrrich victory in the end: a lifetime job with nobody to share it with. Not true for everybody but I’ve spent my entire career at ultra-elite tier places and the divorce rates are far in excess of average. Pretty sure 50% of tenured faculty at my grad institution were still unmarried well past 40 or divorced. I’m not suggesting one must be married with kids to have a perfect life, but the current system is weeding out anybody who wants that.