Comment by replicant

As soon as I finished my PhD in computational science, I left to the Bay Area. I did consider some positions in academia, but as others have described, the low impact of the problems I was working on and the path to permanent position didn't really motivate me. I have been one year in industry and though I am doing something different, filtering and sensor fusion, I would describe my overall experience as very positive. I still get to read a lot of papers, work with very intelligent and motivated people and every now and then I get some praise from my coworkers on my maths knowledge, which is nice. Deadlines are tighter and the metrics in which my work is judged on are very different.