{"id":4388,"date":"2011-03-06T09:36:09","date_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=4388"},"modified":"2011-03-06T09:36:09","modified_gmt":"2011-03-06T14:36:09","slug":"repostgoodbye-academia-i-get-a-life-blog-devicerandom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/06\/repostgoodbye-academia-i-get-a-life-blog-devicerandom\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Goodbye academia, I get a life. \u2013 blog.devicerandom"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>It has been long and painful to discover that it was just an illusion. When I found that academia was not working for me, I got immediately depressed -my whole worldview was crumbling. Then I remembered that I had a life. I liked my life. I had a billion things that I loved to do. I want to do them again. Quitting and reclaiming back your life is not failing. It is waking up and winning.<br \/>\nA week ago I was with friends, talking about my job, and I found myself comparing science to a drug addiction. Being a scientist, from the brain chemicals point of view, is one week of adrenaline rush when you\u2019re finally on to something and pieces go together -followed by six months (if you are lucky) of pain and suffering, only to get again that adrenaline shot.<br \/>\nWell, noble addiction as it is, it is toxic the same. The next month I\u2019ll be 30. It\u2019s really time to get my life back.<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.devicerandom.org\/2011\/02\/18\/getting-a-life\/\">Goodbye academia, I get a life. \u2013 blog.devicerandom<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It has been long and painful to discover that it was just an illusion. When I found that academia was not working for me, I got immediately depressed -my whole worldview was crumbling. Then I remembered that I had a life. I liked my life. I had a billion things that I loved to do. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2011\/03\/06\/repostgoodbye-academia-i-get-a-life-blog-devicerandom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Goodbye academia, I get a life. \u2013 blog.devicerandom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-society"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}