If you're a tenure track professor today in a STEM field today, you're likely incredibly lucky or privileged as well as being smart. Most people don't want to p

If you're a tenure track professor today in a STEM field today, you're likely incredibly lucky or privileged as well as being smart. Most people don't want to play the odds and that's absolutely fair. Even a career as real world engineer makes little sense compared to one in finance. You're job opportunities are less, you'll likely have to go live in rural places you don't want to, and your risk of losing your job for long stretches is quite high. We don't have as many important public infrastructure projects anymore so real world engineers are in much less demand and many just work on condo buildings or maintaining current systems.