Exactly. Mostly, "academia" doesn't mean authentic employment right now. I suspect that eventually, this will morph again once it becomes clearer what it means to turn higher ed over to an army of adjuncts living as gypsy nomads moving from one ivory tower to another... but in my DD's generation, a career as a professor is a non-starter. I'm so incredibly sad for her over that. She'd be a natural-- and probably GREAT at every aspect of that job. But it's probably not to be.


Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.