outstanding features : Work more than you ever will in your life but earn a petty wage :angry-place: Academia is full of elders who formed a caste system which it will take you years to enter, if you even can. The pursuit of knowledge is secondary to funding concerns. :mao-shining: become alienated from your fellow workers :no-workers: be crushed by 18-wheeler on your way to Uni :no-carnism:
im done
Love when boomer relatives tell my partner to just get a job teaching because they know a 70yo tenured professor that makes 6 figures and think anyone with a PhD can stumble into that. Then my partner gets to diligently and systemically explain why that's not possible and be met with a blank stare, and next time we all get together the exact same conversation happens