> Under an exploitative employer, the way I was previously, I wouldn't know any better, I had no sense for the value of my time/work and I used to panic about h

> Under an exploitative employer, the way I was previously, I wouldn't know any better, I had no sense for the value of my time/work and I used to panic about having to send simple emails to people, quitting a job used to sound equivalent to suicide. Seems the lessons you learned as a grad student are the lessons I learned as an employee :-) My first job was exploitative. I eventually gave them the middle finger and left. Everyone told me I was crazy: "All jobs are like this. You have to suck it up" Eh, no. None of my jobs since then have been that bad. Half of them I actually enjoyed. This is very relevant: https://xkcd.com/1768/ https://xkcd.com/1768/