I'm quitting. I've had enough.
Enough of not being able to spend time on interesting research because it isn't trendy, of battling with problems for weeks only to find that they were probably
solved fourty years ago and published in some obscure Russian journal
which is impossible to find either online or physically, of reading crap papers which appear in the best journals, of being looked over for promotion/conference attendence/citations in favour of people who couldn't tell their arse from an impala, of having to correct all the mistakes typsetting services introduce into my
papers, of wasting my research time on admin and beaurocracy, and most of all, of arrogant, rude, unwashed old men with hyperinflated egos.
Goodbye physics. I expect I will miss you sometimes. I would say you're in good hands, but you're not. Best of luck with that. Try not to find SUSY.
A.
