I like Tanya Khovanova’s perspective: "I started my life wanting to be a mathematician. At some point I had to quit academia in order to feed my children. And

I like Tanya Khovanova’s perspective: "I started my life wanting to be a mathematician. At some point I had to quit academia in order to feed my children. And so I went to work in industry for ten years. Now that my children have grown, I am trying to get back to academia. So I am the right person to compare the experience of working in the two sectors." http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=476 http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=476