For my experience, I will start with that in academia because that defines basically all of my past work experience. As you may get to know me in the post of my self-introduction. I used to work as an intern for 2 and half years to apply what I learned in the medical textbooks. I would say that is a shockingly destructive experience for my confidence in the past few years of accumulating all those heavy load of knowledge and turns out I may just behave like an idiot in almost everything that from ordering proper screening tests to making diagnosis. But thanks to my supervisor attending physician who has been very considerate and tells me that actually I was doing just fine and being clumsy is basically what everyone has gone through in their medical career. People who cannot take the existence of this period may start to question their love for this career and turn into academic field of clinical medicine, and those who get through the obstacles of self-doubt manage to stay in the frontier of clinical field (I should not say industrial, right?) and they finally survive the internship to residency. So my point is for no matter which field to step in, it always takes passion to make you qualified for the job. All I can say is at least in medical career, the academia is never inferior than the industry, it’s always personal decision to define their perfect job and pursue what they really want in the first place.