We do have more prospectives for researchers. There’s industry which many go into. Most the time it even gives you much better financials, but the trade off is

We do have more prospectives for researchers. There’s industry which many go into. Most the time it even gives you much better financials, but the trade off is lower freedom in choosing your area of research. To me it’s a fair trade off. If your in a big company with a high salary doing research you have to convince management if you want to start working with some new area of research and have them invest into it. If you are in academia you have to convince some grant issuing institution. Either way if you want to be a researcher it’s not enough that you are talented in doing the research itself. You also have to be able to write down your work in high quality, and communicate your past and current work, as well as future work plans in high enough quality to get someone to invest in you.