I feel almost exactly the opposite about the work I published- I don&#x27;t want anyone to look it up and ask me about it, ever, because I&#x27;ll be forced to admit that I was writing about things I had no knowledge of by a guy who wanted to be able to list as many publications as possible on his academic website.  The work I did had basically no relation to the industry it was for, which is the industry I now work in.<p>I got the job I&#x27;m in because of the work I did, but mostly because the people I work for now are even less technical than my academic adviser was, and were impressed by the people he knew and how long his list of publications was.<p>Apply this 10x for the patents my name is on.<p>For clarification, I quit two years into a PhD program and have been working in the industry for the last four years.