I have the exact same feeling as the author. I got a corporate tech job after leaving academia and quit five years later. It was a good job to save up enough mo

I have the exact same feeling as the author. I got a corporate tech job after leaving academia and quit five years later. It was a good job to save up enough money to do something else that I actually wanted to do. Money was literally the only benefit. As a person, I didn't grow at all and the only intellectual development I ever did was outside of work hours.