[StableAlkyne]

I don't know why so many people want to go into academia these days.

Tenure is a multi-year rat race with worse hours than a seed stage startup (to be fair to the startup, at least you have feedback in the form of sales and VC fundraising). The pay is bad and the politics are incredibly petty. Tick off the wrong person and your career is torched.

[vrosas]

Having worked with some ex-academia people I can feel this. They often seem to bring that bitterness (and in all honesty a certain level of masochism) with them to the workplace even after escaping.