"Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States." (http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-

"Adjusted for IQ, quantitative skills, and working hours, jobs in science are the lowest paid in the United States." (http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science) Despite agreeing with everything in the article, I am still devoting my life to somehow getting into graduate school - simply because my life goal is to eventually spend all of my prime waking hours working on beautiful, elegant, entirely non-commercial concepts, and there is still a non-zero number of academic positions which allow this, in contrast with industry. Like choosing gladiatorial combat in place of meekly kneeling for beheading, it is an issue of having a sporting chance vs. no chance at all.