Links on problems in academia

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Academic career

Academia: Not for everyone many people who agreed that motivation, perseverance, and tenacity are key to success in science.
How today's scientific culture affects young scientists Can you also live happily as a scientist simply by doing your job well? It seems not. [...] nowadays the successful scientist has all the attributes of a modern rock star. Without regularly producing number one hits you will quite likely not make it.
Farewell early 20s, farewell academia? all my discomfort and melancholic temperament could possibly be a result of forcing myself down a path that was not right for me. I then began to wonder, is there not another way to live? A life more full of hap, and less full of drudge?
Falling Off the Ladder: How Not to Succeed in Academia My loss of belief in my own potential was the first step toward where I am today.
Don't become a scientist! pursue another career. This will spare you the misery of disappointed expectations.

Sandal leaves academia (Austrian article)
Lessons from a recovering postdoc And it’s never an easy decision for those who do. It’s one that is filled with doubt and questions: Is it just because this experiment isn’t working? Am I a bad scientist? Was my PI simply having a bad day? Am I just not committed enough? Am I cut out for this? What will my family think? What about my grad school mentors? Will this kill my career?
In which I question my own sell-by date Age discrimination became illegal in the EU in October 2006, but science cleverly gets around this problem by putting restrictions into their fellowship eligibility criteria.
Imperial measures – but measuring for what? “The answer may well be that Imperial is a very good place to be a high-flying academic, but not a very good one to be an average academic.
And Another One Throws The Towel And Leaves Science This is all straight hustle, straight business, straight ripping each other off, being mean, supporting ‘friends’ even if they are wrong, pretending to be something better, elitism, exploitation, …
Give postdocs a career, not empty promises Fresh blood in a lab is useful, but so too are experienced people who can train others more efficiently, who are in touch with the latest techniques and who have first-hand knowledge of the lab's carefully amassed treasure-trove of materials.

Reentering Academia - A Success Story I knew that I could be a reasonable scientist given the chance. I eventually managed to convince people here in Oxford that I could be taken back on as a postdoc.