Something Deeply Wrong with Chemistry (2010)
The problem with academic science is threefold:<p>1: you are expected to feel privileged for doing something you vaguely enjoy. (how many people actually enjoy running columns and NMRs at 12am?)<p>2: you are expected to be altruistic in your ambitions. Curse those vaguely better paid lizard people who are working in industry to forward some profiteering enterprise rather than &quot;science&quot;<p>3: there are huge barriers to entry (tech excluded) so you will not do something entrepreneurial and make a name for yourself without the university. To make sure of this, we will name claim on anything you do for the next 10+ years anyway.<p>It&#x27;s no wonder to me that many of the talented people. Leave to go do banking or consulting - they work less for more!!