[pavel_lishin]

... if you've just gotten your Ph.D., know how to get some specific grants, have no interest in remaining in academia, and consider it against only one alternative: becoming a professor.

[pc86]

Well if you have no interest in remaining and academia and you only compare it to becoming a professor, anything would be better, right?

[stevenwiles]

I'm having trouble understanding your logical association between having no interest in doing something and being willing to do literally anything else.

Would you mind explaining what you mean by that?