This is a sentiment I&#x27;ve heard from a lot of my friends in academia.<p>I hope the author isn&#x27;t also similar to those friends of mine in another way: assuming that the marketing job that private industry has done when comparing themselves to academia is true. That things are more rational and productive outside academia. That they won&#x27;t just enter another game played by chickens with no heads that has slightly different rules. That they won&#x27;t spend most of their time doing useless bullshit that the system demands they produce even though it does nothing to further the goals they are supposed to be advancing.<p>I liked the piece, so I do hope the author ends up preferring the different kind of pointless make-work the alternatives provide him.