tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post7378777064208988105..comments2024-03-28T17:13:01.117+10:00Comments on Condensed concepts: How quickly should you leave academia?Ross H. McKenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09950455939572097456noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post-23430179486062114792014-02-23T01:32:11.105+10:002014-02-23T01:32:11.105+10:00Having moved from academia to industry and back, I...Having moved from academia to industry and back, I can say that it very much depends on the type of job and the person. For example, a theoretical physicist may struggle to find interesting/satisfying problems to work on in industry, whereas an experimental physicist may suddenly have all the great equipment that was not available at university. If you decide to leave academia, be prepared to accept that it is potentially very different, and that you may have to find other things besides work to fill your life.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5439168179960787195.post-38141090415125385012014-02-17T17:28:36.684+10:002014-02-17T17:28:36.684+10:00I find it very hard to see how Schrager's expe...I find it very hard to see how Schrager's experience could resemble that of the "average" PhD student. She studied economics and finance at an Ivy League university, and became a public policy pundit based in New York, which I would have thought is an absolutely typical sort of career for someone with that educational background. How many people who do such degrees, *don't* end up as part of the Wall Street / Ivy League ruling-class nexus of think tanks / media / high finance? Mitchellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10768655514143252049noreply@blogger.com