As someone in a similar situation: I hold a PhD in Molecular Biology, yet the pay as a post-doc was so low, I couldn't even get my two kids into a decent school. And don't even discuss pre-doc salaries if you have any family ambitions...
Guess where I am in now? Machine learning consulting, left science - doing work that finally pays my bills and gets my kids to a first-class school.
Guess where I am in now? Machine learning consulting, left science - doing work that finally pays my bills and gets my kids to a first-class school.