How do you define academic? Do you mean teaching, research, or the likes of academic IT? From personal experience, it's relatively easy to move from industry t

How do you define academic? Do you mean teaching, research, or the likes of academic IT? From personal experience, it's relatively easy to move from industry to academia in a support role(1), but hard to get Principal Investigator/tenured prof roles. (1)as long as one can accept the salary tradeoffs