Im struggling with a sense of being a tiny cog in a huge capitalist machine. Small companies are very appealing to me!
No concept of: this is bad for our image or we might get sued. PIs are all powerful. No meaningful line manager.
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Also most people are not as liberal or as nice as you might imagine. Everything = politics, power, who you know.
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So I do not see academics as better or worse than a company, just different.
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And that doesn't mean I don't love my job. I really do. But it's got issues & certain things really need reform.
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But to say it's somehow pure: most def not.
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One of biggest shocks PhDs have to deal with is how nasty, corrupt, sci is. Old boys' networks, cliques, etc.
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A lot of great work is ignored. A lot of great people go unthanked. P-hacking is real. Life is not fair.

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So "do things that make the world better" I'd say = just as much as true for uni as for government or companies.
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