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by chubot 4624 days ago
A notable one that's made the rounds on HN before: http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...

I see the "I quit" genre more from CS/engineering professors, but that's probably because I'm on HN a lot. It would be somewhat interesting to compare the humanities subgenre and the STEM subgenre.

Also yesterday I had a long conversation with my neighbor at work (former math professor) about everything that's wrong with academia. He mentioned the phrase "loan farming".

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> I see the "I quit" genre more from CS/engineering professors, but that's probably because I'm on HN a lot.

And because it's quite easy to find an industry job if you're a good CS/engineering professor.