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Re:Why You Don't “Fucking Love Science” by jofer on Thursday September 19, 2013 @04:34PM (#6414107)
My benefits (in terms of health care, pension, 401k, etc) in industry are _substantially_ better in industry than they would have been in academia. Industry has both better benefits and higher salary and shorter working hours.

Academia has flexibility and challenge (and politics, to be fair). Despite all of the downsides, I miss it.

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Re:Why You Don't “Fucking Love Science” by NovemberWest on Thursday September 19, 2013 @04:43PM (#6414179)
Have an upvote, though I would say flexiblty and challenge are real benefits and it would be possible to calculate a dollar value for them if you knew the right data to look for.
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