When I was in grad school my PI was in the process of retiring. I’ll never forget what he said when I asked home how he felt to be retiring. He said he was so h

When I was in grad school my PI was in the process of retiring. I’ll never forget what he said when I asked home how he felt to be retiring. He said he was so happy to not be funding himself through soft money anymore. He said that finding yourself through grants for 30+ years was exhausting, and that it’s only become harder to do over time. After that experience I realized I’d never work in Academia, and this post solidified that feeling. There is just to much bull to deal with, especially when you aren’t tenured