[yurlungur]

Some very valid points. As a PhD student I had similar considerations and on top of that my biggest reason was that I did not want to go into a painful postdoc career only to start on the arduous path of obtaining tenure. That said, despite the limitations, academia is still by far the best place do research (on average). Especially as a professor, you really do enjoy freedoms that are rarely if ever found in other realms.