Usually we only hear this from the disgruntled.  It is valuable to hear this perspective from someone who perceives themselves as happy and successful.<p>&gt; because I know how they were obtained.<p>This is similar to one of the reasons I left graduate school.<p>I realized that everyone who plays ball and puts in the hours gets a PhD.  And I saw incomprehensible postdoc hires.  Lots of things didn&#x27;t even look like significant accomplishments (or even all that hard, and I&#x27;m no rockstar).