Years ago, too, my one (lawyer) friend from (Missouri) commented as someone who has known a fair number of people who have been employed in academia, that academia "seems like a lot of busywork" -- i.e., it's basically chock-full of time-consuming activities that don't really do anything and ultimately aren't all that productive.
And, she too works for a government bureaucracy, which seems at least to me fairly efficient.
One you start prying into academia and the logic of tenure, a lot of it is hierarchically-enforced and counterproductive practices that make no sense at all except for maintenance of tradition and image-needs of those in "the club."
On that note, my one art school colleague who wears (women's) clothes once also remarked that academic can be very confusing, since it's so rigid and hierarchical and stultifying and yet it's always saying that it's completely the opposite.
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