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Re:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-... by ams6110 on Monday July 22, 2013 @11:03AM (#6084093)
Transitioning to a corporate job after 7 years in academia would be a culture shock for most people, to say the least.
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Re:How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tenure-track-... by mathattack on Monday July 22, 2013 @01:00PM (#6084976)
It would, but people pull it off. Here's one example, also from Harvard. http://matt-welsh.blogspot.com/2010/11/why-im-leaving-harvar...

I think it's much easier in Computer Science than other fields - say the humanities, or biology or chemistry.

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