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by pclmulqdq 1304 days ago
If you don't have a PhD, don't touch academic jobs with a 10 foot pole. They all got one, and they value the credential to a ridiculous degree.

When I last worked with academia, they essentially thought of me as the same as the guy who maintains the lab equipment, not an actual collaborator on their research.

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The academic elitism doesn’t end at PhD. A friend asked a Nobel prize winner their thoughts of different person who was recently awarded a Nobel prize in the same field. Their response “Ah, yes that was one of the lesser Nobels”