You shouldn't need to be doing a Master's, PhD, postdoc, or have tenure to do science and succeed. The problem is the credentialing. The impossible task is to g

You shouldn't need to be doing a Master's, PhD, postdoc, or have tenure to do science and succeed. The problem is the credentialing. The impossible task is to get rid of all the fuddy-duddy decision makers (including the vast majority of postdocs themselves!) who buy into the system because... "I suffered and made it, so that's what these whipper-snappers should do too!". note: I have PhD from a top tier university and will soon be a professor at another top tier university. And yes, I badly want things to change and to be to able to hire high school kids or soccer moms but won't be able to under the current system.