The article sorta-kinda touches on it but it really should have gone deeper into the elephant in the room: having a career in science means you're resigned to s

The article sorta-kinda touches on it but it really should have gone deeper into the elephant in the room: having a career in science means you're resigned to shit pay with a heavy schooling burden. You can drop out of college and get an engineering job at a corporation and make $100k-300k a year, but if you get a research job at a university or government agency you'll be making five figures and forever paying off your debt from your three degrees.