The nearest I get to my past academic life these days is watching science programs and podcasts (and finding all the nerdy physics jokes in the Big Band Theory funny. If this happens you know you should leave the world of physics!). So I was catching up on my astronomy podcasts last week when came across this one.
Slightly disconcerting for me because this is what I use to do. Specifically it's part of the same project I was working on before I left to come back to the real world. Bit of a wrench deciding not to be part of building the world’s largest telescope but I found out recently that my old job disappeared after I left and more critical people than me have lost their jobs so if I’d have stayed I’d probably not have a job anyway.
Do I miss it. Well parts of it. Jetting off to remote mountain tops and playing with big telescopes definitely. Constant insane deadlines, no money or job security, not as much.
Well at least I still have the pretty pictures I took.
