This basically reflects reasons I went from academia to industry. There is no real IC career path in academia, if you want to get paid more than peanuts you bas

This basically reflects reasons I went from academia to industry. There is no real IC career path in academia, if you want to get paid more than peanuts you basically spend your entire life applying for grants and managing other people to do the work on them. Now firmly ensconced in big tech, my cash bonus is roughly speaking the same as my previous salary, I don't spend my entire life filling in grant applications, and I get to work on interesting and relevant problems with a supply of cutting edge hardware rather than whatever I could find a grant to purchase, or the 5-year refresh paid for from the central pot, or some amount of hours on whatever the IBM rep managed to offload to upper management as a "supercomputer".