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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 5 Sep \ parent \ on: Elite academics don’t care about innovation - Bits&Chips science
Come back. Just treat those years doing economics as your patent-clerk years~~ (I imagine the reference is clear).
When I started doing my PhD, after a few weeks, i got hit by the politics going on in the lab, including the fact one postdoc may or may not have slept with my boss to further her career. My illusion of people doing science for the sake of science got shattered. It's not all sunshine even in fundamental physics.
Luckily, i later got to work with people who truly love the science and have a level of intellectual integrity i can only aspire too.
Haha, maybe once my kids are out of the house I may look at doing some amateur physics
I imagine everyone in academia has their stories of feeling jaded, since you usually enter it with some lofty ideas of what the research world is like.
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