[red-iron-pine]

Not me but a friend. PhD in Physics and programming, he did a ton of modeling with R. He had/has chronic health issues, so used that to get a teaching job in a country with socialized medicine.

Once he got citizenship he'd had enough of the academia and coding... dude changed to cheese making. Like, he is a full-time cheese consultant now, and travels around the world to assist in cheese making efforts, setting up cheese caves, etc. Does a bit of other culinary stuff too, occasional pop-up restaurants, etc.

I think about that a lot, especially when I have to sit through change control meetings that go nowhere...

[XTXinverseXTY]

Guys like him get to do that, because he has the sort of brain that allows him to get a PhD in physics

The world is a whole lot more dangerous and confusing for everyone else

[ra423]

I don’t get your point.

[XTXinverseXTY]

More intelligent people can afford to take on greater risks than most people. They make better inferences

OP shouldn't try to imitate his friend, thinking he'll find similar success. It's an unpleasant conclusion but it's conducive to staying alive

[solardev]

He really milked it, huh?