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[–] oyfrog@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago

I felt that in the bone. Postdoc life is one foot getting ready to move and the other foot dreading every decision that led to the thought "A PhD is a good idea"

It was a good idea, but holy shit is it all sorts of miserable.