Academia Explained

[adirondacker]

9. In my field, companies are grabbing recent grad students, working them 80 hrs on salary

and burning them out in 2-3 years. It used to be if you could spell hydrogeology or hydrology you could obtain your degree and know you had a comfortable occupation that paid well. Times and the system have changed a lot of the aspects. Most of the governmental oversite positions are now handled by "third party" multinational environmental consulting firms that are only interested in turning a profit. The other jobs include working for a fracking company.

Research positions are increasingly requiring a Phd, and jobs are limited.

Looking back, I should have sold out my pro environmental ideology and worked for a petro company to bank enough cash to retire. Instead, I'm still paying off my BS loans 15 years later.