I went to college and worked on both degrees in Computer Science and Psychology. I wanted to go into researching in a field that crossed the two of them. I even did undergraduate research in a lab that worked at creating and testing VR to aid in therapy.

What I saw, read, and heard as I began my climb up the Ivory Tower made me turn back and go into industry instead. Once you are inside you begin to see the corruption. From the lack of pay to people who were allowing their views to corrupt their work (often seen by tweaking definitions of terms, especially in the realms of sociology and social psychology).

I still want to go back, but I would like to do so once I'm personally financially secure as that would remove one of the vectors for corruption.

P.S. To be clear, nothing was bad in the lab I worked in, perhaps because there was little to make political about creating VR landscapes and interactions.