Years ago i had an option to start an academic carreer (after finishing my studies), and the basic situation back then was publish-or-parish for titles and etti

Years ago i had an option to start an academic carreer (after finishing my studies), and the basic situation back then was publish-or-parish for titles and etting your own EU/locally funded projects/grants and doing most of the stuff yourself, while being limited a lot by paycheck (you're still a public employee) and promotions to tenured positions, because basically, the person there had to die, since it was impossible to remove them, and almost none of them retired voulontarily... So I said "nope".