As someone who has now experienced both sides of the dichotomy (80 hr weeks underpaid and overworked in academia, 40hr weeks bored out of mind doing coding), a

As someone who has now experienced both sides of the dichotomy (80 hr weeks underpaid and overworked in academia, 40hr weeks bored out of mind doing coding), a compromise would be great. Personally I'm hoping to keep my job to pay the bills and start a garage lab and pursue my passions in science. It'll severely be underfunded, but I'm hoping to conceive things that can be done with machines that hopefully costs only as much as a boat would. Further, Richard hamming is on to something [1] when he suggests that great science happens when resources are scarce. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html http://www.paulgraham.com/hamming.html