Thank you for writing about it! It’s very common in tech too but people don’t talk about that either (though academia is objectively more competitive; you have

Thank you for writing about it! It’s very common in tech too but people don’t talk about that either (though academia is objectively more competitive; you have far fewer tenure-track slots, compared to even a major “elite” tech company that employs over 100,000 people). It’s important for people to see that those who have succeeded have failed too.