Why these PhD scientists swapped research for secondary-school teaching

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• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This article is full of contradictions.

  He liked the international nature of the collaboration, but the administrative demands began to take their toll. “I wasn’t having as much time to focus on the physics analyses that I really enjoyed. I could see that the career path was going towards administration, politics, funding applications,” he says.

  So he went into teaching, a career infamous for too much admin, politics, and poor funding.

  Although working in a secondary school is demanding and often involves overtime, teaching roles still offer more flexibility than academic ones.

  Teaching roles are incredibly inflexible, so this means that academic roles must be horrendous.

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  • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    this means that academic roles must be horrendous

    sounds about right from what I’ve heard

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