As professors struggle to recruit postdocs, calls for change in academia
Make it make sense. Offer Postdocs an actual career path not based on broken tenure and disposable adjunct professor roles, with hundreds if not thousands of applicants. Why would someone, with any field of study, be a &quot;scum of the earth&quot; post doc for 1&#x2F;5th the salary and double the hours required as a junior python developer role? Moreso, post doc&#x27;ing for the wrong professor can ruin your career, why risk that either?<p>If the pay isn&#x27;t good, the culture and work should be. In academia, that&#x27;s almost never true. I couldn&#x27;t support my family, nor ironically pay my families student loan payments as a post-doc, the decision was an easy one to make... But if I were really doing it for the love, the love isn&#x27;t there.<p>You might think &quot;oh here&#x27;s an industry person who doesn&#x27;t like academia&quot;, wrong. I loved research, writing papers, teaching people stuff, forming collaborations, etc. Just can&#x27;t make it survivable financially or psychologically.