The whole empire of academia is broken, and although I have went through the whole things, and now in an assistant professor type position, it 1) took too long, 2) paid too little as a post-doc, and still pays too little for my level of expertise, 3) the grant process is a burden that doesn't enhance productivity; it doesn't leverage my expertise; it bogs me down and keeps me from using the scientific skills I've built in order to play grantsmanship to beg for money. Multiple tedious submissions and revisions. 4) professors increasingly just become managers, the least valuable activity of their training set.