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Counterpoint - 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 pres
by bovermyer 4y ago
Counterpoint - 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.