• Zeth0s@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    By experience in academia in a rather theoretical field, for sure you’ll struggle finding the new Einstein in academia. Most of the best people I know left at some point. System is at collapse.

    In more applied field (lab-based) you still find good people, private competition is still not so better in terms of money and life balance. But for theoretical fields, it is a misery.

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      Most of the best people I know left at some point. System is at collapse.

      In Western countries, certainly. Not a coincidence that the Koreans cloned the first sheep and the Chinese accelerated through the 7nm chip fab barrier at a speed that made Moore’s Law look like an underachievement.

      In more applied field (lab-based) you still find good people, private competition is still not so better in terms of money and life balance. But for theoretical fields, it is a misery.

      There’s definitely good money in engineering. Idk about private blue-sky research. I know a few guys who work at Tesla and Boston Dynamics doing the R&D work, and they have not been particularly happy.