Recently, I've witnessed some senior academics mock PhDs & postdocs for choosing industry. Apart from the utterly baseless points raised (hours are flexible in many data science jobs, workloads are often similar, etc.) — it's completely out of order in general. I see you.
People definitely salami slice both in academia and in industry.
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as an academic, I don't feel a tremendous obligation to deliver one specific thing. I don't think that's how research works. Deliver *something*, yes.
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That's because you are a professor. The people beneath you absolutely have to produce a specific thing in the form of papers.
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we deliver papers. Just not necessarily the ones outlined at the beginning of the project.
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(also, we produce software and trained people, who don't necessarily need papers to go into industry. So I think it's more complicated than "papers! more papers!" :)
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Unfortunately in some fields papers are all that matter, academia or industry.
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