Yea, me too. Slaved away in academia for peanuts for 6 years. Then the first job I was offered outside academia paid 8x what I was making and 3x of of the best

Yea, me too. Slaved away in academia for peanuts for 6 years. Then the first job I was offered outside academia paid 8x what I was making and 3x of of the best academic positions I was being offered at the time. Never looked back.