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"I am a profesional in the science industry and the profession is so debased I would not recommend my children to get into the field. We all talk about burnout

• chestertn 5y ago
  It is a long topic and the causes I don't understand well. We spend more time trying to obtain funding and satisfying some metrics rather than doing actual research we find meaningful or useful to society. The competition among peers in your same lab makes difficult to build healthy work relationships. We see how much of the people that become successful do it so in a way which is orthogonal to scientific values. This might be something that has been going on since "the world is world" but talking with the old timers it seems it has been exacerbated in the last decades. In addition to that all, in the universities and research labs, the HR and management departments have exploded (Have you seen the graph at [1]?) And they all seem to focus in stuff like in the article rather than taking care of the existing talent. This article might lay the issues better than I did [2] [1] https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/eyyiyheucaug4wt.png https://wtfhappenedin1971home.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/ey... [2] http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/decline.txt http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/decline.txt