Tough times ahead for academia. I fortunately work in a lot of "applied research" projects funded by industry. You have to be a masochist to want to work in un

Tough times ahead for academia. I fortunately work in a lot of "applied research" projects funded by industry. You have to be a masochist to want to work in university research for your entire life. The pay is mediocre, the hours terrible, and some of your colleagues are outright psychopaths. Everyone works towards what the incentives are, and the incentives in American Universities (and South American) are to publish or perish. With the decline of antitrust and corporate research centers, universities and institutions have had to take up the slack with govt. grants and the like. Not sure how all this plays out, but it's not looking pretty.