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Should I Quit Academia? I Ask Myself Every Day
Some professors say they love this job.
They say it’s rewarding. That it’s exciting.
And maybe it is for them.
But I’m going to be honest with you:
Every single day, I ask myself if I should quit.
It’s not because I’m bitter.
It’s because I’ve seen how the system works.
And once you’ve worked with real data—not cleaned-up, publishable models, but real-world messy data—you start to see how deeply broken this profession can feel.
I was trained as an engineer. I came into academia thinking that truth mattered most.
But truth is messy.
Truth doesn’t fit cleanly into a journal submission.
Truth…
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