Academia is for insane people. Pay is often shit unless you hit tenure and you work 90 hour weeks. You have to be on a level of crazy to put up with that.

Like medical sciences, biology, microbiology, etc.

I have a master's in the life sciences and am looking at leaving my PhD. position. I would be making like $36,000-$40,000 most jobs that don't need a PhD. I honestly fantasize every day about working in a warehouse for similar wages than being miserable doing this shit with an advanced degree...

Product designers in the 1970s and 1980s: "Yo what if we put wheat and flowers on E V E R Y T H I N G?"