Trust me, I know. It's absurd. We study and train for years to be the best in our respective research areas. And then our job has nothing to do with it, it becomes mostly managing a research group and begging people for money (which, given the current odds of getting funded, is little more than playing the lottery). I'm pretty sure someone with an MBA would do that better than me. I would really like to sit to work with my students and do some actual science, which is what I studied for.
Trust me, I know. It's absurd. We study and train for years to be the best in our respective research areas. And then our job has nothing to do with it, it becomes mostly managing a research group and begging people for money (which, given the current odds of getting funded, is little more than playing the lottery). I'm pretty sure someone with an MBA would do that better than me. I would really like to sit to work with my students and do some actual science, which is what I studied for.