>>11911683As a postdoc, you get fucked in the ass no matter which field you choose. There is basically no demand for postdoc labor given their current supply. The only viable route if you don't want to take dicks in the ass for 10+ years is to go to industry for enough years until you can network into more senior positions in academia where it will actually be your dick going into your postdoc's ass.
That's actually what I'm doing right now. I'll eventually get my Ph.D. in mathematics but for now, I research whatever my bank needs me to until I'm well-connected enough to land a full-time professor position in some bullshit like financial mathematics or whatever the fuck which will still have me doing analysis and whatever I want.
Pros:
-Getting treated like a human being
-Better benefits
-Easily double the money you'd make as a postdoc.
-Get to learn how money actually moves from point A to point B, a really useful skill to know later on.
-Still common to exit into academia and will do so in a much more stable position.
Cons:
-Will be limited by whichever techniques are already widely accepted in the industry
-In many cases industry research is nothing like academic research
