🗑️ 🧵 Failed academics thread

sage at Tue, 12 Nov 2024 21:40:04 UTC No. 16472428

Who else went into STEM with the delusion you could make a career out of it?
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Academia is filled with mentally retarded nepo fags who are motivated by namefagging and reddit-tier "science" spectacles. I couldn't stand it, nor could I reasonably succeed with satisfaction. I moved to industry in hopes that it would cut down on some of the shittiness, but somehow people were even stupider and gave even less of a shit than the so-called "academics" with even more rampant nepotism. Pay was only slightly better but with much worse working conditions. I even tried working some of the shitty pleb jobs in my field in an attempt to distinguish myself and "work my way up" (how naive of me) for a while. I had already picked a "second-choice" field because what I originally wanted to really work in is in very low demand and the field is very difficult to enter without connections or the correct background, but it turns out the tradeoff was for nothing.
Perhaps I'm just a quitter who didn't "stick with it" for long enough to get to the good parts. Maybe I'm just unlucky. Maybe my country (United States) is on the worse end of things. Obviously not everyone has it bad. I'm sure there are some labs out there that are nice and functional.

These days I do blue collar work. Currently, I work as a miller. I'm just thankful I don't have to work in service.
What do other anons do for work?