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Work is what you do for money… but you spend a lot of time doing it. If you don’t need a ton of cash.. Work in Academia. It’s kinda like a start up in that th
by acomjean 4y ago
Work is what you do for money… but you spend a lot of time doing it. If you don’t need a ton of cash..
Work in Academia. It’s kinda like a start up in that the teams are small and they’re isn’t a ton of support, but the pressure is less. There are interesting projects and collaborations. Pay is lower but not bad, they give good benefits and don’t crush you all the time. There’s politics but in software you can mostly ignore it.
- bovermyer 4y agoCounterpoint - my dad is a software engineering professor, and while he does get summers off, when he's working he's working very long days. There's always pressure to get grades in, generate new research papers, deal with politics, and deal with students. Academia is far from a low-pressure career.
- acomjean 4y agoI kinda meant jobs in academia that are not being an academic. I work as a programmer in a lab, so I'm isolated from the pressure the PIs and postdocs face.
- specproc 4y agoYeah, most of the academics I know are miserable. I'd still love to do a PhD sometime, but without feeling the need to turn it into an academic career.