>>12765490I have dropped out of Grad School (Cancer Medicine) because Academia is fucked. I was actually doing good but was just miserable suicidal mess.
In academia there is no HR, there is low pay, but still many retards (like me) that want to enter it, no academic freedom (highly political and repressive, not creative), everyone is miserable and thus make each other miserable.
The reason is because from undergrad on you are told to enter academia so sheep will keep going there. There is probably also a bunch of grandiose fantasies and narcissism involved. This system is in place so the (per lab) poorly funded academe can keep on getting cheap science workers. See, nowadays as a PhD "studfent" you are more of a cheap technician, no freedom or adequate supervision. Postdoc stands for "postdoctoral student" so they dont have to pay you full scientist wage or benefits.
Outside of the academe bubble, the real world, there is few demand for most scientists so many people are forced to stay in the academe if they dont want to de-qualify.
At least the talented people enter the academe because of the brand of some institutions like Harvard or Uni Heidelberg (where I went) but they usually dont know that they will be treated much better in other places. To get into those ivory towers is also very luck and narcissism-dependend. I know two absolut fucking retards that got internships at Harvard, one is now PhD student at Oxford. If you dont have any illusions about academic freedom and are fine to just slaver away as a technician for no money nor future job, its the place for you. Maybe only entering an ivory tower will give you any benefit. But in those Ivory towers the people are even bigger asssholes and you are even worth less. So pick your poison.
