[Chaguito]

Exactly, and I agree with you 100%. I think that my word “frustration” reflects the fact that I didn’t want to stay in academia. I wanted some sort of “settled” product to come out of my work. So I went into industrial chemistry.

In any case I still like sitting in on my chem prof brother’s student seminars to remind me of how glad I was to make the decision.

[TXnMA]

When I went back for a few courses, and they literally begged me to lecture on the technology of products already in production, (I was on ed. leave from Jack Kilby's semiconductor R&D labs) I knew that I could never stomach being stuck in academia...