34. other profs i've known who quit academia were in their late 30s/early 40s. (and of course a ton of grad students and undergrads who stopped much earlier, an

34. other profs i've known who quit academia were in their late 30s/early 40s. (and of course a ton of grad students and undergrads who stopped much earlier, and people who never got jobs and eventually worked outside academia, but that's much more common)