After having been an assistant professor for three years, I have given up on Academia. I quit to get a job in the industry. The big concerns were * Academic fr

After having been an assistant professor for three years, I have given up on Academia. I quit to get a job in the industry. The big concerns were * Academic freedom. So many restrictions on what one can say; from state institutions, from society, from the university administration, even from departmental politics. * Bureaucracy. Academia becomes more and more a David Graeber style "bullshit job" every year. I spent almost a third of my time doing compliance paperwork or attending useless meetings. * Answering to MBAs. The power structures in universities are almost completely out of whack. Administrators using their power to force nonsensical policies about teaching or research - things they understand little about - just so they can get some self-designed metrics up. I haven't given up on academic stuff. I am writing a book, and in the future hope to publish papers, but as an industry researcher or an independent scientist.