Welcome to this new general, only the third, where we discuss science careers including PhD, postdoc and the escape from academia to industry.
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We have a paste at Neocities: https://sciencecareergeneral.neocities.org/ (no ads) Inputs to this is welcome.

I was insanely naive when I did my PhD in Physics and with all the glossy info it can still be hard to find the brutal truth before it is late.

So let's have a comfy general, and also enjoy some relevant comics:
http://phdcomics.com/comics.php
https://antimatterwebcomics.com/